I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.