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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

To create something you must be something.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.