Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

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

A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.