When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

When you know who you are you are free.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

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

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.