We should all celebrate the magnitude of diverse and unique souls that live in our world today, for it is an essence that makes our lives colourful every singleday.

Many years ago, I left my home country very narrow minded. Today I return with an educated mind, able to understand why my culture is as it is and still be very proud of it.

Being able to experience and live the differences with sound judgement offers a chance to opt for what is right for one.

Do not fear to find yourself among strangers.

What might be considered loyalty in onesociety might not necessarily be the same for another.

Then I learnt of “white Christmas”, which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.

Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes uponthe swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Their faces were inches apart now, and he traced her lips with one finger, lightly, lightly, then placed his lips there as if he’d drawn them into being.

It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

Success is not easy. But it is worth the price.