We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

Pambana na Shetani kwa upanga wa imani ambao ni ukweli kwani ukweli ndiyo utakaokuweka huru.

When you change your thinking, you change the world.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

I am more than my scars.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey

Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine.

I was thinking about the armor, personally. I think it would go great in my hometown. I don't know. I'm not sure. Hopefully.

If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.