I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

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.

You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!

I feel like I'm the winner. I really do.

The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".

What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.