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" I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. "

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" It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world. "

" 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. "

" There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls. "

" In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home. "

" 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. "

" I believe I can sing anything. "

" I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me. "

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" 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. "

" And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite. "

" 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. "

" Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time. "