I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Y’all dropped the ball and you should be shamed.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.