When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.

By any means necessary, I am for Africa.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand.

I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.

Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.