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.

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.

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

I look at the past and I see myself.

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.

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.