Akinwumi Adesina Quotes

I'm not a political singer. I don't know what the word means. People think I consciously decided to tell the world what was happening in South Africa. No! I was singing about my life, and in South Africa we always sang about what was happening to us — especially the things that hurt us.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you,
I wish nothing but the best for you, too.
Don't forget me, I beg.
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love,
But sometimes it hurts instead.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Don't you know that a good and excellent person does nothing for the sake of appearances, but only for the sake of having acted right?

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

The virtuous who are prosperous must be exalted, and the virtuous who are not prosperous must be exalted too.

All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

It's like a battle, trying to find the right words to say at the right time.

Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you’re looking down.

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

Suppose we try to locate the cause of disorder, we shall find it lies in the want of mutual love.