I Think It Is Incumbent

In My View, Africa's Real Problems Are Cultural.

I Had To Run Away From Home In Order To Be A Musician. Because I Came From A Family Of... My Father Was A Health Inspector; My Mother Was A Social Worker. And I Was Pretty Smart In School. So They Expected Me To Be Some Kind Of Academic - Schoolteacher, Or Doctor, Lawyer - And They Were Very Disappointed When I Told Them I Wanted To Be A Musician.

I've Got To Where I Am In Life Not Because Of Something I Brought To The World But Through Something I Found - The Wealth Of African Culture.

The Afro-american Experience Is The Only Real Culture That America Has. Basically, Every American Tries To Walk, Talk, Dress And Behave Like African Americans.

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.