“Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incr...” — Jill Scott Quote

“Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.”

“A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.”

“I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.”

“I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.”

“The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.”

“Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.”