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.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.