The anti-imperialist, forces in the country [Zimbabwe] here, I think are not that strong. The capitalist forces, the reactionary forces are far more formidable, far better organised. But we would have wanted to hear the voice of the anti-imperialist forces, those who espouse the cause of freedom, the cause of independence, everywhere.

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?