“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us” 

“If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.” 

“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” 

“Swiftboating enters the English language as a verb that means attacking strength instead of weakness. In feminist and other social justice contexts, this has long been called trashing, attacking leaders for daring to write, speak, or lead at all. Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad. p.189” 

“A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”

“We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.” 

“I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.” 

“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. ” 

“Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." ” 

“Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.” 

“Always ask the turtle.” 

“no one ever got radicalized by being grateful” 

“No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.” 

“I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so.” 

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.” 

“The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.” 

“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” 

“It’s said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.” 

“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.” 

“Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.” 

“Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.” 

So far there is not a single Gambian or dissidents from Britain who came to join to them (the coup plotters); so I am very sorry.

I am going to get rid of these elements one by one until the last person, apart from the decision from the Almighty Allah, no human soul, animal, fish or insect, black or white, can remove me from power.

Nobody can also destabilize this country. So anybody who comes to attack this country; be ready because you are going to die no matter who you are and who backed you, we will get to the bottom of this and we will not spare anybody.

We will get to the bottom of this and we will not spare anybody.

As an independent Muslim country, we will not be tied to any bloc that promotes decadence and ungodly behavior, we are no longer going to entertain any dialogue with the European Union, either directly or through the sub-regional, regional and international blocs of which we are members.

“Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.”

“Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.”

“May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.”

“My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.”

“The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!”

“I can cure AIDS, and I will.”

“Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.”

“I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.”

“Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.”

“Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.” “As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.”

“When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.”

“My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.”

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.

I'm the youngest of six kids, and I grew up with a lot of noise, a lot of music, and a lot of laughter.

I'm so thankful every day.

I have a love-hate relationship with working out. I do not enjoy the experience when I'm doing it, but I never regret it.

I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.

I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.

I just want to do work that gets people excited and makes them feel things, no matter their economic or racial background.

If you look at the story of 'The Get Down,' it's the story of young people, unknowns thrown together by their resources, trying to create something.

When I was in college, it was on the recommendation of a friend of mine. He recommended that I take an acting class, and so I kind of did. I was very open to feedback and open to suggestions. I had a little bit of space in my schedule, and I guess, as the story goes, I went into an acting class, and I kind of got the bug for it.

I wanted to be Michael Jackson as a kid.