The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.

Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

Facts can obscure the truth.

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

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.