"I always wanted to leave home. I never knew they were going to stop me from coming back. Maybe, if I knew, I never wo…"

"When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved …"

"My concerts were canceled left and right. Speaking about South African Apartheid was fine, but they were suddenly afr…"

"In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn’t sing anymore. I’d tell them, ‘I …"

"I didn’t have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New Yo…"

"It is absurd to say that we Africans were not in Africa when white people first came. And secondly, The conqueror wri…"

"We don't write our history. It has always been handed down to us orally by our elders."

"The white man, where ever he is, whether he is in the majority or the minority, he rules. It just proves to everyone …"

"Everywhere I performed in Brazil, I never saw black people. I only performed to white people. And they (the white peo…"

"African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West."