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. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
I don’t think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
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. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
I don’t think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don’t know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
Africa has been troubled for a long time – well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
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. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
I think the most difficult thing that has had to happen in South Africa for the previously disadvantaged communities is they had to reconcile that the oppressor has been enriched and the establishment is now making five or 10 times more profit than they were during the time the economic embargo was on them. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive. Hugh Masekela Read Quote