I look at the past and I see myself.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

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.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

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.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

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.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Only loving people who love you isn’t profitable

Employment stereotypes you

Act on your instinct. It is the spirit of your divinity.

The right attitude is everything!

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself.

Teaching, without learning, is just talking

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

In those times I can't seem to find God, I rest in the assurance that He knows how to find me.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.