Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

We write to share our thoughts and our lives.

Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can't we eat-eat-eat, and then talk?

First times are always sacred. May we never run out of "firsts

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

Not that I'm a fan of Bernie Sanders, but a lot of Bernie people voted for Trump. You know why? Because he's right on one issue: Trade. He was right about trade.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.

Baltimore is a great place.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.