All my experiences removed geography from my world.

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.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Memories sharpen the past

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.