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Facebook Are An Amazing Team, A Brilliant Team. It's A Technology That Brings People Together.

If You Pour Your Life Into Songs, You Want Them To Be Heard. It's A Desire To Communicate. A Deep Desire To Communicate Inspires Songwriting.

I'm A Singer, Not A Politician, And I Think You Don't Want The Two To Get Confused. It's Not Ok To Be On Cnn Talking About People Starving And Then Tell The Interviewer That Your New Album Is Coming Out In Six Months.

You See, Africa Makes A Fool Of Our Idea Of Justice. It Makes A Farce Of Our Idea Of Equality. It Mocks Our Pieties. It Doubts Our Concern. It Questions Our Commitment. Because There Is No Way We Can Look At What's Happening In Africa, And If We're Honest, Conclude That It Would Ever Be Allowed To Happen Anywhere Else.

God Is In The Slums, In The Cardboard Boxes Where The Poor Play House. God Is In The Silence Of A Mother Who Has Infected Her Child With A Virus That Will End Both Their Lives. God Is In The Cries Heard Under The Rubble Of War. God Is In The Debris Of Wasted Opportunity And Lives, And God Is With Us If We Are With Them.