“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”

All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.

The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world.

Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.

In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.

We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.

Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people

The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.

Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge.

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

But as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.

The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.

There is a close connection between socio-political development.

The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

The Christian life doesn’t get easier as one gets older.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

It’s easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.

I like to write sad songs. They’re much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don’t want to hear them as much.

It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.