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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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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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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In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home. – Miriam Makeba

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You dont have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. – Annie Leibovitz

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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The color of truth is gray. – Andre Gide

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That Jim Brown. He says he isnt Superman. What he really means is that Superman isnt Jimmy Brown! – Anon.

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