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Quote by Miriam Makeba
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if yo

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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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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