Age Is Wisdom If One Has Lived

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.

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.

When I Was Young, I Never Bought Records Because My Brother Joseph Played Saxophone And Had A Record Player. I Loved Listening To His Records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, All The Big American Jazz Bands, And Vocalists Like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, And Kitty White, A Singer From The Us Who Was A Friend Of Nina Simone. Nobody In America Seems To Know About Her, But She Was Quite Popular In South Africa.

Well There Is A Lot Of Work Here For Younger And Older Musicians Now. Our Ministry Of Culture Has Now Really Embarked On Changing Things For Artists, And It Is Getting Much Better. We Just Have To Organize Ourselves As Artists, And Then Things Will Be Better.

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.