“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

I will plant my hands in the garden; I will grow green, I know, I know, I know.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.

Africa will write its own history, and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity.