What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today?

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.

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

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?

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.

It's important to come to know that this is all there is. There isn't something to attain, there is only something to be.