I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

A lot of people kind of want to wait until you're off a show before they book you into a movie.

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

I work too hard and don't play enough.

He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

Greed is too flimsy to flawed