I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

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.

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely is dead. It would probably be best if he were dead... - Katniss EverdeenS

I always find that I'm at my best,' Eric said leadingly, 'when I'm at my worst.