My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I lived for music since I could think.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

It had been six weeks since I brought my second child, my daughter, kicking and screaming into the world. Six weeks, that magic number men everywhere look forward to and women dread.

BAREFOOT BEACHTake off your shoes-You're on barefoot beach.Relax in the sunshine-Broken only by trees.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Self-doubt kills talent.

I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.