Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.
People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals. . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.
I look at the past and I see myself.
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U. S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
[Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.
I don't like to generate too many expectations.
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition.
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.
Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.