I look at the past and I see myself.

People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.