Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Strangers are an endangered species.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.