When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

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.

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.

Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.

We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings.

I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.