When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.
In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city.
Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why dont you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.
Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I'm achieving some level of financial comfort here
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around.
Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.
It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.
I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.
In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.
They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.
As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.
I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.
Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.
The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.