To be African is to be modern - this is the central paradox we must embrace.
作为非洲人就是现代人——这是我们必须接受的核心悖论。
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.
The only real prison is the one we build for ourselves.
Art is the evidence of a life fully lived.
"The credibility of your results depends on the plausibility of your identifying assumptions."