I Will Probably Die Singing.

You Are Damned And Praised, Or Encouraged Or Discouraged By Those Who Listen To You, And Those Who Come To Applaud You. And To Me, Those People Are Very Important.

Everybody Now Admits That Apartheid Was Wrong, And All I Did Was Tell The People Who Wanted To Know Where I Come From How We Lived In South Africa. I Just Told The World The Truth. And If My Truth Then Becomes Political, I Can't Do Anything About That.

And I Believe That It Becomes A Troubled Continent Because There Are Those Who Must Always Cause Confusion So That We Do Not Keep These Natural Resources.

I Look At An Ant And I See Myself: A Native South African, Endowed By Nature With A Strength Much Greater Than My Size So I Might Cope With The Weight Of A Racism That Crushes My Spirit.

I Didn't Have Much, But I Was Always Happy To Share What I Did Have. It Seemed Like Every African That Came To New York City Would Show Up At My Apartment Door At Dinnertime, And I Couldn't Turn Them Away. I Wasn't Much Older Than Any Of Them, But They Started Calling Me 'mama Africa' And The Name Stuck.