Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast