The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

You can never know what you are fully made of until you start to do the things that fear you the most.

Be yourself. Trust me, you don’t want to be anyone else because they are not you and you are special.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.

I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.

My aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for my need to create a more beautiful world around me.

Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.