Hugh Masekela Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Hugh Masekela quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 85 year old South African musician born on Apr 4, 1939.
“What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.”
“I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.”
“I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.”
“I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.”
“I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.”
“In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.”
“I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.”
“I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history.”
“I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.”
“I lived for music since I could think.”
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