"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

The time is always right to do what is right.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.