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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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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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Truth
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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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It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. – Robert Shea

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Compared to America or Europe, God isnt a big part of our lives here. I dont know anyone here who goes to church when hes had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead. – Bjork

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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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The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Im a real relationship person – contrary to public perception. Im either in one or Im not. – Sienna Miller

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Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people. – Maggie Kuhn

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If youre going to tell people the truth, be funny or theyll kill you. – Billy Wilder

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. – Alan Perlis

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