Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

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.

When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.

Once human beings had developed higher-order consciousness, they had the ability to see mental images projected onto surfaces and to experience afterimages.

Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.