People judged my work without to have listened to it.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.

But when you don't follow them up with any action, they're completely pointless. They're just sounds and syllables. But they mean absolutely nothing.

There are more glorious days ahead, this should be your joy for today.

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

For me, there's a lot of expectations and you want to be able to live up to them.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.

Knowing yourself lets you understand others.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality.