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.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

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.

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.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.