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.

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

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

I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in our place? Would you not resist if you were allowed no rights in your own country because the color of your skin is different to that of the rulers, and if you were punished for even asking for equality? I appeal to you, and through you to all the countries of the world, to do everything you can to stop the coming tragedy. I appeal to you to save the lives of our leaders, to empty the prisons of all those who should never have been there.

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 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 look at the past and I see myself.