Explore popular quotes and sayings by a South African musician Brenda Fassie.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was a South African singer, songwriter, dancer and activist. Affectionately called MaBrrr by her fans, she is also known as the "Queen of African Pop", the "Madonna of The Townships" or simply as The Black Madonna. Her bold stage antics earned a reputation for "outrageousness". Ironically, her Xhosa name, Nokuzola, is a feminine name that means "quiet, calm or peace".
I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.
I'm so good and so loving that men don't believe it.
I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.
I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
I am proud to be an African.
I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.
I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.
I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.