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. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
Watching a Kirk Douglas movie, ‘Young Man With A Horn,’ made me want to be a trumpet player. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
I’m not a Christian. My participation in music is so full blast, 24 hours a day. And that’s my religion. I think I’m as spiritual as the pope, because I spend as much time in my spirituality as he does. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
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. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There’s no formulas. It’s all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever. Hugh Masekela Read Quote
