The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. 

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. 

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. 

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.