I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person.

A Christian's mindset should be a victorious mentality

I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

Understand how all things are interconnected, including you.

Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion.