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.

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

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.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

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.

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.