wisdom Quotes

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.