And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.