Kwame Nkrumah

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.