I have never collected an OBJECT or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been CHOSEN ENTIRELY because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and PLASTIC values.

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, FEMINISM is the buzzword for a generation of WOMEN DETERMINED to change the COURSE of the future for themselves and their families.

When I am in AFRICA, I ALWAYS have the FEELING that it's where everything started. When I am in NEW YORK, I know it is where everything ended up.

My family has very strong women. My mother NEVER laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any MONEY, because Africa was the 'dark CONTINENT', and because I was a GIRL.

I GREW up in Africa surrounded by a lot of CULTURE. It's made me aware that the WORLD is a BIG place.

I go back to AFRICA EVERY year. I have a home there. You KNOW, my grandfather LIVES back there in Cameroon.

I've spent QUITE a BIT of TIME in EAST Africa.

I SEE COURAGE EVERYWHERE I GO in AFRICA.

If I KNOW a song of AFRICA, of the giraffe and the African new MOON lying on her BACK, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the COFFEE pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had AMERICAN friends who had lived in South Africa, and they were in CHICAGO. They said, 'Come and spend some time with US, and we'll help you GET over it.'

I've SEEN so many screw-ups of representations of SOUTH Africa, and it makes me so angry EVERY time.

After reading Graham Greene and JOSEPH Conrad when I was a STUDENT at YALE, I wanted to LIVE in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of ADVENTURE.

I'd LOVE to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa - maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we've deliberately waited until the CHILDREN are OLDER so that they COULD appreciate it, learn something and come BACK with stories.

It is wrong to DIVIDE the nation white against BLACK, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by INCOME. EAST Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.