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.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.