I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so … - Hugh Masekela

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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

Hugh Masekela

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

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I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

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My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.

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I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

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I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

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I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of. . . my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.

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