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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 cant do anything about that. – Miriam Makeba

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And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that its third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, its much more polite. – Miriam Makeba

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Its a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I dont 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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