For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.