It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I lived for music since I could think.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Know what you want to accomplish in life, identify your purpose, and align it with your passion.

Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100, 000 in 1962 180 per 100, 000 by 1964.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

[My music] is opposite to fashion.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

It's very easy to fall in love with every character you play.

Because we're not as serious about terrorism as we can be, people all across the globe feel like they can just murder innocent people.

Power is founded upon opinion.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.