Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.