If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

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

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

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.

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

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.