“If you know what you are good at and you don’t develop, refined and polish or add value to your gift, it will never be able to reward you”

“The adherent who believes in the hard working ethics of the black man experiences continuous success and development”

“Research is an endless loop of failures interspersed with occasional profound discoveries.”

“Our success and how well we develop in life is greatly influenced by our perceptions, responses and decisions during challenging times”

“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. … That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. […]My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents’ side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the life chronological rather than in the life existential. We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins, or used to, and we cannot afford all these abandonings.”

“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns…We are now…only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for developments in our culture outside technology, particularly in the social, political and economic fields. It is safe to predict that…such social inventions as modern-type Capitalism, Fascism, and Communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed toward the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”

“we may say that History develops, Art stands still”

“Don’t envy results, seek to know the process. Don’t want a man’s glory till you hear his story. Sometimes what you see is not even the destination, it’s just the current location but the result of a long journey. God sometimes would bring you to a point where it is much more than the gift…He captures your heart. My friend, not everything in the kingdom is a gift, somethings are rewards.”

“Part-time effort means part-tim results.”

“When walking alone on the path of discovery, have faith that you are illuminating the way for others to follow.”

“Due to the experience of being in new places, our horizons and knowledge of foreign languages expand, which also influences the development and mental health of the person”

“Bad luck with women is a determined man’s road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.”