As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

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 color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.

The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.

I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.

Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.