Youthful cynicism is sad to observe, because it indicates not so much knowledge learned from bitter experiences as insufficient trust even to attempt the future.
You fail, you get up and try again.
You can’t get too high for somebody to bring you down.
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
If more Africans had eaten more missionaries, the Continent would be in better shape.
I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
Every shuteye ain’t sleep and every goodbye ain’t gone.[Old folks say]
Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else’s freedom.
Black folks can’t change because white folks won’t change.[repeated line]
Ask for what you want and be prepared to pay for what you get.
