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One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

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.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

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

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

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

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.