Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.