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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

There are some people who are happy to be African writers. They are pan-Africanists. I'm not a pan-Africanist. I think African countries have a lot in common. But we are also very different.

South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

There is always something new out of Africa.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.