"If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek."

“We must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it, then we must express it”

“I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.”

“If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.”

“Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.”

“Until the day I die, I never want to be separated from my dogi; I never want to cease my training efforts in the dojo.”

“Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.”

Source : IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.