Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.

During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrans. We were one people, and we undermined the distinctions that the apartheid government tried so hard to impose. It saddens and angers me to see the rising hatred of foreigners.

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested.