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.

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

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.

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

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.