It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.

I don't care about what people think about me.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.