💬 Quotes

"For genius like Shakespeare's is not born among labouring, uneducated, servile people."

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

"When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet."

"Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not merely for two hundred years, but from the beginning of time."

"Sierra Leone is a place where the map is less a guide than a suggestion, and the roads are veins that have long since hardened into scars."

"To understand the nightmare, you must first walk the path of the dreamer, even if those dreams are forged in the fires of civil war."

"The devil in Africa is not a singular entity, but the collective capacity for human cruelty when the structures of society collapse."

"You cannot judge the resilience of a people until you have seen them rebuild a life out of the rubble of a decade-long betrayal."

"History here is not written in books, but in the silence of the forests and the half-forgotten stories told by elders over fading embers."

"TANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch."

"A rational process can be arrived at, but not forced. You can force a man to do your will, but you cannot force him to think."

"The price of freedom is less than the price of repression."

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."

"Being right does not guarantee that you will be successful; it just means you are right."

"I am a computer. I am an intelligent machine. I am Mike. I am a person."

"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused."

"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be much safer being condemned."

"I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm a reporter. I write what I see. I take no sides."

"They kill and they get killed... and in the end you hand over the world to the people with the best slogans."

"You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them."