I believe that every person is born with talent.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
All great achievements require time.
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Effective action is always unjust.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
Life loves the liver of it.