I have studied at the school of the world.

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.

If the weather is summer in your mind, even the coldest winter will be hot for you! If the weather is winter in your mind, even the hottest summer will be cold for you!

A college provides a means of accrediting and laundering one’s existence, so that what was may be forgotten under the weight of something far more mundane.

The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.

The mirror can lie. It doesn’t show you what’s inside.

You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.