59 Quotes by Fela Kuti

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is the contribution Africa will make to the world of the future - an injection of sanity into the environment of the universe itself.

It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I'm out of that now. The man should understand he does not own the woman, and the woman should understand she does not own the man.

I realized that you cannot think European and want to write or create something African. You have to think African in everything.

When I was young we weren't even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it 'vernacular,' as if only English was the real tongue.

In America we talk about South Africa, but I tell people that apartheid is nothing compared to what is happening in my country where black oppresses black.

Marriage is a terrible institution, it creates such a regression of the mind.

I believe in pan-Africanism. This means that in many things - the judiciary, sports, economics and trade - we want Africanism to be involved, which is basically more freedom for the people.

America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.