"A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor."

"Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded."

"The greatest resource of Africa is not its minerals, but its people."

"No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people."

"We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us."