For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

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.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

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.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

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.

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

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

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won't be on the beneficial end of it but either way it's a blessing in disguise.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Work like Hell. Share all you know. Abide by your handshake. Have fun.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.