Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I lived for music since I could think.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

I believe in magick because I am proof. A soul can be crushed into powder, yet dares to rise in love.Hope is a magick of it's own-And I it's most natural object of passion and power.

Magic is logic.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.