So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.