“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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 long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.