I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, things are moving ahead.

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity

Don't fall for the trap. Stay focused. It's about staying focused but at the same time God is the greatest, pray it up.

Leadership is a choice one makes.

I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.

Stupid to the power of stupid.

The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

When the world wants too much And it feels cold and out of touch It's a beautiful place When you kiss my face from The Woman In Me

Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.