To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.

There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.

Then I saw his kind eyes, a comfort I desired. Then I saw his height, a knight I needed by my side. Then I saw his body, a man I surrendered to.

I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.

My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.

The joy of comradeship in this foreign land has been killed by silence and overprotection of personal space. I miss the chaos around me for it makes me realise that I am amidst life and alive.

Everyone these days is concerned so much with privacy and forgets the value of human touch. We still need each other but are scared of how it might sound or appear to the other.

May you grow to be a fearless and proud accepting-self human.

At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.

If a lion can growl, why shouldn’t a man cry?

A foolish mind would not raise an eyebrow when things are done diff erently in a foreign culture. An educated mind would try to understand the meaning of it all.

Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.

... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?