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

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

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.

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'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.

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.