When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold

By ancestry, I was born to rule.