Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

Sure, ” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?”Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, ” she said.

To me, my brand is luxury, it's art, it's women, it's raw, it's urban.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

If you just believe in me. I will love you endlessly.

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.