Quote by Miriam Makeba
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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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 wont get run over. – 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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Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change peoples ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time. – Miriam Makeba

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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. Its a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you its a way to survive and get closer to the truth. – Laura Linney

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Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. – Alfred Adler

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