I don't really see myself as an actor.

I grew up with reggae music.

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

Africa is the future.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

The stark evening sun at the far edge of the town had just unzipped the sky and finally gone down.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.