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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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In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home. – 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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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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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. – John Milton

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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. Its a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure. – Danielle Dax

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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. – Lord Chesterfield

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