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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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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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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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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. – e.e. cummings

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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. – Baruch Spinoza

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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. – Wendell Berry

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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. – Rupert Brooke

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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. – Benjamin Franklin

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