What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

I just get up again when I fall down.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.