All Quotes

"DPSM, education ministry to meet teachers over grievances 16 August 2023"

"Raletobana bounces back as Deputy PS12 January 2022"

"I will die with Kgafela, says Mabiletsa 11 March 2013"

"Public broadcasting service vital - Mabiletsa 13 Marcg 2012"

"Moeng Pheto unplugged 23 April 2014"

"Pheto accuses BDP of under-hand tactics in his constituency 30 July 2014"

"Nagafela cries foul 8 April 2013"

"If a spark of God's love has already been kindled in you, do not boast about it. Do not expose it to the wind. Close the door of your heart so that it does not grow cold."

"Remember that at home and everywhere else, you should accept other people's shortcomings in the same way that you want others to accept you."

"(About the Milan plague) It was, my children [...] God's great mercy. He wounded and healed; he scourged and consoled; he laid his hand on the rod of discipline and also offered us the stick of support and sustenance."

"I am dead, my king," I wrote to you, meaning that defeat had overtaken me, even before the battle at Actium. "I am dead, my king. The word will not scorch your mouth because I have been dead to you for some time now. Follow the steps of Dionysus. Your god has abandoned Alexandria. Attended by an ostentatious procession, he left by the eastern gate late at night, awash with music, bearing our laughter with him."

"Everything was bound to change, I realized, when I started to imagine and couldn't stop imagining that the virulent outbreak of flu was spreading far and wide."

"if the novel has a power, it’s to touch that consciousness behind words, or before words. There is a kind of poet that always lives there, that lives in a preverbal world, and they work with their words to touch where the words cannot touch. They are always struggling…these two novels, they are nonverbal. They want to touch where words can’t touch. There are many things that cannot be touched by words. In this case, it was the world of the child. (2016)"

"They [novels] are a vice. It’s a vice so big that I cannot keep it hidden. I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel. I think it has to do with joy: there’s an immense pleasure in threading or organizing in a personal way those novels, and I also think it has to do with my Catholic training. Because in Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. (2016)"

"If we don’t fight for spaces of tolerance and civility, Mexico could become a doomed country, marked by intolerance and fanaticism."

"The experience of love led me to poetry—I fell in love and I discovered what had been missing from my poems—; friendship and collaboration led me to theater; and motherhood led me to the novel."

"Women are not entirely excluded from public life and positions of power, but there is still a lot of work to be done to achieve equality between the two genders, in the literary world and elsewhere."

"I read the poems quickly, drinking them up, gulping them down, as if to get drunk. Poetry recharges my batteries. When I am rushing to finish a novel, I read poets like Lope de Vega, Jorge Guillén, Quevedo, Sor Juana, almost without reading them. They nourish my ear."

"I never feel that I have to be true to history: I have to be true to my story, so that it holds up. My novels use historical scenarios, but they are not at the service of history: they are neither memoirs nor testimonies. Like all novelists, I like reality, and I also like to betray reality by correcting its flaws and ultimately reinventing it."

"Ang mag pipigil nang sa korapsyon ay magsisimula sa pamahalaang tapat, bukas, at may itegridad"

"After reading documents and historical treatises, I began to write the novel, and this, for me, is a craft not unlike bricklaying. I’m not thinking of American construction workers, who arrive with ready-made walls and simply put them in place, but about Mexican bricklayers who painstakingly erect a building stone by stone, brick by brick. If you place a rock in the wrong place, it all comes tumbling down. And in a novel, if you put a sentence in the wrong place, the fictional building comes tumbling down."

"We were forced to learn each and every language or syllabus in Afrikaans, doing maths in Afrikaans and doing biology in Afrikaans, doing everything."

"Definitely the voice of the women have continued to prevail"

"There's lots of improvement, but I must still say there is much, much more to be done because we still have, certain things that, undermine the effort that is being made by women"

"Working in an environment where President Mandela was president of the country was very exciting"

"It is our time to assist in whatever we can and not necessarily being back, but creating a better world for everybody"

"I think for each and every woman, what happened in the last election, the first Black woman, being elected as a deputy president. It's something that we are very excited about"

"We urge efficient use of this emergency fund to alleviate the plight of our people in the face of unfortunate circumstances such as fires, floods and other natural disasters"

"We continue to call on banks to help increase access to home loans in order to close the gap for this important sector of workers across all industries"

"Since 1994, the dawn of democracy brought along a new determination by the democratic government. Ours was to restore human dignity from a long history of brutal oppression"

"The time is now to cement social cohesion to further strengthen us as a people to weather these recent waves of racist torrents"

"We are yet to truly see our unity in our diversity, first as a country and also as a continent, a continent that humanity in its entirety, calls home"

"The so-called born-frees are standing up, saying not in our name, not a minute longer."

"This generation assert their African identities and are actualizing our clarion call of a united Africa, at peace with itself"

"As leaders of society, we can draw many lessons from the younger generation to pursue radically different futures for Africa than its current state of dependency on the dominant economies"

"Our biggest cultural export to the world of diplomacy is Ubuntu"

"The majority of the conflicts the UN Security Council deals with, are in this continent"

"Through the African Union, we have worked tirelessly to see that dominant economies do not dictate to us on how to solve our problems"

"We all know that where conflicts burst, the attack on women and children remains one of the most potent weapons"

"The war on our bodies as women must take first priority in this continent"

"The progress of women is the best measure of societal progress"

"Ubuntu as a guiding principle of our cultural and economic diplomacy, echoing Agenda 2063’s Principle 6, will best be achieved with women at the centre as champions of Africa’s development"

"Peace, security and stability can never be fostered in this world without the position of women being significantly improved first through economic empowerment and safety in our bodies"

"I would like us to remember to work tirelessly for justice so that when we are honoured - we are also celebrated as national heritage"

"We are in a good position to work out solutions that befit postcolonial societies"

"We are in a good position to work out solutions that befit postcolonial societies. We need to revive the agency of the people to be masters of their destiny"

"South Africa has lessons to offer, by no means perfect, and we have so many lessons to learn from other countries in the continent may we learn from the mistakes of others in reconstructing our countries towards the future we desire"

"We stand on the shoulders of cultural icons who fought for the liberation of the most oppressed people in the world in Africa"

"When we speak about heritage, we speak about legacy"

"We will not always be right, we must be open to criticism, even when it seems harsh, there are lessons to be drawn always"