If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

Find things that shine and move toward them.

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves.

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.