“Maturity and wisdom become us, when we appreciate people from our past.”

“Life at home is at a pace which allows you to appreciate what it has to offer. Simultaneously you get a chance to reflect on what you wish from it. Our development also goes at the same pace, which is not something that everyone appreciates.”

“My culture may be different from yours, but that should not be a reason for you to sneer at it. If a bunch of us appreciate it, then there must be something special to be learned by everyone, even you a stranger.”

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

“At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.”

“I have learned that love is not a button which you can switch it on when wonderfully sizzling and switch off when heart broken. When you love you cannot put a past tense to it because if you do then it was never love in the first place. But if love was there, then it persists in different forms such as mutual respect but never hatred.”

“What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today?”