Fela Kuti

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.

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Spiritually speaking, every human being has a destiny and a duty to perform.

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Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

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My ideas are threatening to the government.

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American record companies seem to feel I am antiwestern, anticapitalism, anti the kind of society they like. They think I'm a troublemaker.

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A police uniform is just a piece of clothing sewn by the same tailors who sew your clothes.

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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.

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Quotes by Fela Kuti