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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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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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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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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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. – Alphonse de Lamartine

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. – Denis Diderot

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I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. – Steve Lacy

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