Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.

The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.

Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.

The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western notion of a creator - a divine intervention and violent disrupter.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Knowledge is the first step of enlightenment

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Maruman does not loll.

The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.