We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

I don't smoke or drink, but I will not tell you that I won't smoke again. Probably I will when I'm 60.

When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye

Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.

Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.

I will never put anybody before my family because your family is your family.

I don't understand, who is God. I don't understand God. But to simplify that, I will say I believe in creation. They say God is the Supreme Being. I don't believe so. I don't believe God created us in his image. I believe we are too small to understand totally the cosmic wonder of the universe.