The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.