Artists Are The Gatekeepers Of Truth.

I Learned That Along With The Towering Achievements Of The Cultures Of Ancient Greece And China There Stood The Culture Of Africa, Unseen And Denied By The Imperialist Looters Of Africa's Material Wealth.

The Man Who Accepts Western Values Absolutely, Finds His Creative Faculties Becoming So Warped And Stunted That He Is Almost Completely Dependent On External Satisfactions, And The Moment He Becomes Frustrated In His Search For These, He Begins To Develop Neurotic Symptoms, To Feel That Life Is Not Worth Living, And, In Chronic Cases, To Take His Own Life.

Could I Say That The Reason That I Am Here Today, You Know, From The Mouth Of The State Department Itself, Is: I Should Not Be Allowed To Travel Because I Have Struggled For Years For The Independence Of The Colonial Peoples Of Africa.

In My Music, My Plays, My Films, I Want To Carry Always This Central Idea: To Be African.

I Did A Long Concert Tour In England And Denmark And Sweden, And I Also Sang For The Soviet People, One Of The Finest Musical Audiences In The World.