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Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was t

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 cant do anything about that. – 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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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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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth not going all the way, and not starting. – Buddha

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My assignment is what every writers assignment is: tell the truth of his own time. – Leslie Fiedler

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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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