Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Nile perch is a fish that was introduced into Lake Victoria. The reason that fish was introduced into Lake Victoria was because it was decided that the people living near the lake needed more proteins than they were getting.

What is really important is to educate people how to protect themselves and how to ensure that, despite their poverty, they can get tested and access drugs. So I just hope that those who can will make those drugs available.

Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.