It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

When the sea reaches the sky, then we shall all become one.

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim

To seek God’s kingdom is to discover its essence and totality

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Change alone is unchanging.

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.