To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.

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.

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

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.

A story helps folks face the world, even when it frightens 'em. And a lie does the opposite. It helps you hide.

Soldiers falling fastBattle of white and scarletBlossoms on the ground

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

Some stories aren't black and white.

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

A 10,000 mile walk, begins with a single step and continues one step at a time.