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Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.

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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.
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The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.
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