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.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

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

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

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

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.