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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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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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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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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. – Matthew Simpson

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I want to age with some dignity. – Pete Townshend

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