Miriam Makeba

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  • “Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can’t do anything about that.” -Miriam Makeba

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  • “I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.” -Miriam Makeba

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  • “Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.” -Miriam Makeba

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  • “Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.” -Miriam Makeba

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  • “I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.” -Miriam Makeba

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  • “It’s a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don’t see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.” -Miriam Makeba

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  • “In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.” -Miriam Makeba

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  • “Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.” -Miriam Makeba

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  • “Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people’s ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.” -Miriam Makeba

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  • Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won’t get run over. – Miriam Makeba

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