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Quote by Miriam Makeba
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed

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

Other quotes by Miriam Makeba

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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Music
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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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Future
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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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Home
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. – Edvard Munch

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. – John Lubbock

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I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. – Newt Gingrich

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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. – Gustave Flaubert

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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. Its almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies. – Gary Ross

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I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if its wrong – so we can work through it. – Bethenny Frankel

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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. – Karl Rove

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Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. Its really good for your health. – Marisa Tomei

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