The English are the people of consummate cant.
It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.
People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals. . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.
I look at the past and I see myself.
But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U. S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance. The creative evolution of his community and his own creative evolution must always be the two earnest purposes of the individual. Its own creative evolution and that of the individuals in its midst must always be the two earnest purposes of the community.
I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.
Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.