My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.