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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

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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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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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Change
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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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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. – Helen Garner

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Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. – Charles Baudelaire

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Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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