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.

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 can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Health is Wealth

The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)

If I used a higher percentage of my brain I wouldn't of had to ride on the short bus.

Ages passed I knew at last my life had never been.

But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

I have no boss but my conscience.

The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.