I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

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.

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.

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

I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.