It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

Don't dream of winning, train for it.

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

Sacrifice begins with sharing.

Democracy is the process to elect government of the upper-class people, by the poor people and for the corporate people.

When your heart truly adores somebody, your mind perceives a halo on that man's head.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

Ladies love me when I spray the mic But there aint no "I" in snuggling Aint no "U" in "Stay the night"