60 Quotes by Hugh Masekela

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

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.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

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.

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.

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.

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.