For ten years I never left my books;
I went up ... and won unmerited praise.
My high place I do not much prize;
The joy of my parents will first make me proud.

A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido.

Listen, if you're from Arizona I'm not making fun of your home. I'm making fun of you for gathering there and building a community in an oven. Smooth move.

My stage name is bigger than what I own. I was used. I was hurt since the beginning. I got very little from album sales of my music. If journalists can visit my place and see the deplorable condition I am living in, Tanzanians would open their eyes (and see the exploitation artistes are exposed to).

A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable, old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

I do love singing covers. Funny thing is, I have always preferred singing other people’s songs and making them my own. That’s why this show is perfect for me.

Most of the terrible women one must meet, women with the blatant views and voices, women who have to be noticed, who shoulder one about, who can’t take life quietly, belong to this large percentage of women who have never made a sex adjustment.

As more systems become complex, the more you have to decentralize – because people can then manage in a much more agile way as they adapt to those complex situations.

This culture must not die. Our young people are vandalising our traditions. This is why I try to motivate them

We are special as DSA electeds not because of ourselves, we are special because of our organization.

2Pac's Greatest Hits (1998)

There are no two men in this world more similar than you and him," she told me. "And that's the worst thing for having a conversation.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

The Sufi is hanging on to Muhammad, like Abu Bakr.