I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me

When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation.

It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.