“I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.”

I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Respect me, or put me to death.

Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.

Some things are better done than said.

Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.

Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That’s why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Learning to let them be is self care.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

You’re too powerful to be a slave of acceptance.

There’s no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it – and get on with it.