Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.
Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.
Africa is the future.
Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you
Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.
Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.