- Barack Obama: The world will be what you make of it, you have the power to hold your leaders accountable and build institutions that serve the people.
- Barack Obama: You can conquer disease and make change from the bottom up. You can do it, yes you can.
- Molefi Kete Asante: If you go back and look at what Africans did; the first people to cross a river the first people who decided how to build shelter, geometry, how to count-these were African people.
- Maulana Karenga: We didn't start being African because we got to America, and we can't stop because we are here. We will be African forever.
- Dr. Kimani Nehusi: Africa is the richest continent, with the poorest people.
- Dr. Kimani Nehusi: It has the longest history yet Africans are the ones who are most ignorant about their own history.