"One of the most influential proponent of activism is that I will continue to work to build a more equitable, just and inclusive international system"

"The Black Lives Matter means speaking out against the injustices that have been dealt to the black community and bringing about a consciousness that unseats the maliciousness with which black people have been handled."

"Black Excellence means the full manifestation of what has always been present in the black community. It is the reinforcement of legacy that will allow for many generations to understand that the embodiment of excellence does also exist within us."

"I've learnt to ground my energy and not absorb a lot."

"Taking time out to just have my time has become extremely important for me."

"In means to be seen, to have a freedom like no other and to truly stand in my power. It's the ability to revel in one's truest form and showcase to the world what black pride looks like."

"success is the ability to make some of your wildest dreams come true."

"GQ Young, Gifted and Black Series: Dineo Langa (February 21, 2021) by Luthando Vikilahle retrieved 25 July 2022"

"GQ Young, Gifted and Black Series: Dineo Langa (February 21, 2021) by Luthando Vikilahle"

"Here's the thing: I'm 38, I'm black, and I'm a woman. So those are three really hard things to deal with...except I'm always working, but I really work hard to get - sometimes - crumbs"

"At the same time while the world is facing complex, multifaceted and interconnected crises; my portfolio will continue to include women empowerment and girls education on the African continent"

"I will do everything in my power in the years to come for the most vulnerable people across the continent"

"Particularly in nutrition, food system transformation, school meals and girls education. WFP is full of incredible humans, committed to make a difference in war-torn, conflict and famine areas"

"There are times I've been beat up in this business. It hasn't been just roses and fairytales"

"It's been a tough road and you have to stick to what you believe in. You have to be strong. You have to be able to say no, and I cannot afford to operate out of fear"

"Dineo Ranaka on her never-say-die hustler spirit ( 22 May 2019) by Kemong Mopedi retrieved 19 July 2022"

"The root of all sanity and serenity, where womanhood is concerned, is in the circle of queens and the quality of queens you keep in your life.”"

"Try your best to not lose sleep or joy over things or situations that aren’t in your immediate control"

"Live light. Laugh long. Love the ones you’re with and serve the ones you love."

"DINEO RANAKA UNPLUGS WITH HER BEST-FRIEND AT KAGGA KAMMA by Cardova retrieved 19 July 2022"

"Dineo Ranaka on her never-say-die hustler spirit ( 22 May 2019) by Kemong Mopedi"

"DINEO RANAKA UNPLUGS WITH HER BEST-FRIEND AT KAGGA KAMMA by Cardova"

"I am brave man, I like to try."

"“I’m not going to reduce myself just to make other people feel comfortable."

"You can’t downgrade hard into hardships because the poverty will follow you. You downgrade into manifestation"

"Life has no rules, there is no right or wrong, my wrong could be your right. When I broke into the industry I was the girl living a lavish life"

"People read my actions and not my intentions. I don't blame the media for the attitude people had towards me. The media does not fabricate things. When you act like a diva you get seen as one"

"Life is not about the material things. You can be a success and find real love without losing yourself along the way"

"Living rich was the loneliest time of my life"

"I still want money to call me … Money must still recognise me and be like, ‘that’s my girl"

"No wedding bells anytime soon, I believe that having a companion doesn't really mean you have to get married"

"Companionship is when you are both at a space where you are content. Both of us know where we are going but focus on the future. If both of us are still building our careers so let's focus on that then we will revisit that"

"I've been depressed for about 15 years. I'm still dealing with it and I'm still getting anxiety attacks ... I only found out that I was really depressed like two years ago and when they diagnosed me, and I sat down with my shrink, that's when they actually told me that I've been depressed since my daughter was born 15 years ago"

"The industry is quite boring now because everyone is so curated ... there's a certain image they need to put out. For us, what sold was you being yourself"

"No. I worshipped him because I had a 'hero syndrome'. He saved me and gave me what I've always dreamt about. He was like God to me."

"We are broken. My siblings and I are broken because I think our parents couldn't articulate the kind of a family we are in ... So we have daddy issues"

"A man with money will get you everything, but you will pay for it."

"Apart from the greatness of Bizos for his role in the dismantling of apartheid, defending Mandela etc , he also manifested a genius in his role as a leading member of the conservative South African Greek community, by drawing historical parallels between the 400 years of slavery that Greece had suffered under the Ottoman Turks and the 300 years or so of repression and cruelty suffered by the Southern African black tribes and mixed race people under the British and then under the Nationalist Afrikaner rule. By using this strategy Bizos was able to balance his fight for justice in South Africa, and synchronously lead the very conservative Greek community in a more progressive direction."

"My search for justice grew out of the pain I experienced when I saw the ridicule my malformed brother elicited. I became aware of the evil that is prejudice, a form of injustice."

"They`re powerful parts- all the most powerful parts seem to be written for men....Hamlet has this existentialist crisis .I had one when I was 17. Women are not given that kind of philosophy in their parts""

"I can say that my collaboration with Theatro Technis was a serious milestone in my life. I had the chance to work with George Eugeniou a great director who taught me a great deal"

"By the time I got a permit I found that I liked being independent, that I like to do productions that I think are valuable . I did not want to feel that I had left South Africa, my parents and a comfortable life to do rubbishy work"

"...this is not the only time that I have stuck out my neck for a Greek film director. With Nikos Nikolaidis I introduced him to Mr Constantini as well , and undertook to send his XXX-rated movie `Singapore Sling` to two of the top film agents in the UK , Jenny Cassarotto and PDF who have now changed their name on account of a merger. Ms Cassarotto was indulgent, but the other agent was so shocked that he treated me as if I was peddling porn. The things I've done for Greece!"

"Voulgaris asked me to find film funding for what was to be the last but unfinished film project of Elia Kazan,a personal friend of Voulgaris. The subject of the film was the immigration of the Kazan family from the beleaguered Greek minority communities under Turkish rule in Asia Minor to the safe haven of the USA where the Kazan family settled. I arranged a meeting between Elia Kazan and the London based film financier Frixos Constantini of Poseidon Films at the Grand Bretagne Hotel in Athens. What followed from this meeting is that Mr Constantini put Elia Kazan in touch with Martin Scorsese a personal friend of Mr Constantini and who also runs the production company Cappa films. And so it was that these two giants of US cinema met for the first time. It is also because of these meetings that Paqndelis Voulgaris was able to make"The Brides". Elia Kazan was too old to get film insurance , so Kazan instead brought to Scorseses" the Voulgaris film project "The Brides" , and yet I have to this day never have had a thank you from him. So much for his saintly appearance."

"The reason the Internationalist Theatre productions demanded attention was that the directors who had already worked at top theatres like the Royal Court and the Royal Shakespeare Company had agreed to take the risk of directing classical plays with multi-racial casts , that the performance was of a very good standard, and furthermore that many prominent members of the arts establishment, Lindsay Anderson, Cameron MacKintosh, John Barton, Richard Eyre, the great casting director Mary Selway, Stephen Berkoff, Nicolas Roeg , came to see performances by Internationalist Theatre."

"This is the place (Wits University) where the tension between my parents and myself on account of my political beliefs became pronounced. A photo of me standing at picket line on the WITS side of Jan Smuts avenue during one of the protests appeared in the "Star" newspaper. The local MP from the Nationalist Party Boksburg constituency saw it and made an ominous call to my parents "I didn't know that your daughter was communist!" and put the phone down on them. Of course I wasn't a "communist" but anyone who opposed the regime was automatically labeled as a communist. I ceased my political studies as I didn't wish to cause my parents any extra anxiety or stress ."

"... without New Testament Greek there would be no Christian Theology, or possibly no Christianity. The Athanasian Creed, the dogma of Christ the Homiousios, of the same essence as the Father , the dogma of Christ, fully God and Fully Human , The dogma of the Holy Trinity , 'that Christ is the incarnation of the indivisible source of the Divine Godhead through the power of the Holy Spirit " could only have been formulated by the Church Fathers within the linguistic structures and concepts provided by early century Greek language and thought., e.g concepts such as the God/man, a concept that which does not exist in the Hebrew and is totally foreign to Hebrew culture. Hence Shelley's assertion that the Greeks /the Hellenes "gave us our religion "."

"A key moment of my spiritual epiphany was the tale told by the property manager of our apartment block, Mrs Marina. Every year on All Saints Day if I remember correctly, she commemorated the death of her son who died from an overdose. She baked some holy bread, antidoro, and then took it to her parish Church as an offering for evening vespers. When I asked Mrs Marina why she was doing this, she replied simply, "So that Christ speaks to my son and takes pity", as it is on this particular day it is believed that the Christ descends once again into the bowels of hell, not to defeat death this time as in Holy Saturday, but to keep company with the so called damned. For mothers like Mrs Marina fearful that their dead children might inhabit this nether world because of their sins, despair of redemption etc, Christ's visit provides some hope- that He might take pity on them and relieve them of their eternal punishment. Christ as the God that Unshackles the power of Hell and Death , the Resurrected Christ that even reaches out to the damned , and not the Christ of Deo Satisfactio of the heretical western Churches is one of the great glories of Greek Orthodoxy and of Orthodoxy as a whole."

"..the gift of Orthodoxia : The call by the Christ not to be just good moral and ethical beings, which is where the western Churches stop- but to go beyond that , to be 'theanthropic", to reflect the generosity and magnificence and beauty of the Christ."