My view is that any serving President foolish enough to lay his head on a coin should know he is inciting people to take it off; the head I mean.
One idea in particular: that we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence of the African voice.
We are sending you to learn book. Enjoyment can wait. Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world.
In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest—without asking to be paid.
And I felt envious. I had no mother to buy head-ties for, and although I had a father, giving things to him was like pouring a little water into a dried-up well.
A man should hold his compound together, not plant dissension among his children.
A man does not speak a lie to his son. Remember that always. To say My father told me is to swear the greatest oath.
Nations were fostered as much by structures as by laws and revolutions. These structures where they exist now are the pride of their nations.