Dorothy Masuka

"I wasn’t meant to live this long,I was a sickly baby but look at me, living and beautiful. That’s a blessing."

"I didn’t understand why I should be barred from that restaurant or being with that person."

"People in music want you to play small so you can make them feel better. That’s why you see so many bands break up no matter how talented they are."

"I’ve been fighting not for a particular area — I’ve been fighting for South Africa, I’ve been fighting for Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Congo and all these places. So I feel I don’t belong to one place."

"I’m a child of every part of this continent."

"They want to know how someone like me, who hasn’t studied music, can understand it so well."

"The way of my singing is message. You send a message: It’s love, it’s sadness, it’s everything."

"I didn’t plan to be a singer, singing planned to be in me."

"She belonged to a generation of artists who transcended boundaries in art and politics long before we coined the concept of globalisation."

"A response to the daily experience of being harassed, grabbed and catcalled at in public."

"She was the living library of music and an iconic legend with vast experience."

"Her music uplifted the spirit of millions across the world."