I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

What he [Barack Obama] does to change the world - that's what's important.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.