“Be a flower that bursts through the crack of cement.”

“There is nothing wrong for a man to be in the kitchen and cook. There is nothing wrong for a man to like flowers. There is nothing wrong for a man to carry a baby. There is nothing wrong for a man to do house chores. There is nothing wrong for a man to visit a beauty salon. But there is something wrong if anyone of us feels it is not right for him to do any of these.”

“Anyone capable of training the heart is a walking zombie.”

“Behold your nakedness as a precious stone, which not every miner is able to dig it out.”

“Being poor is neither history nor permanent but a status. Writers who begin with this sentence “X is a poorest country in the world,” to describe any African country are lacking intelligence. How would they feel if we turned the tables and used sentences that portray historical offenses committed to other countries? I bet nobody would like to read, “X is a country that killed millions of Y during Z’s regime.”

“Sometimes one day at a time is too much. Try one moment at a time.”

“Fear confines us to lesser choices that we can’t grow. Hope liberates us to greater heights that we can grow.”