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Quote by Miriam Makeba
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that its third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, its much more polite. – 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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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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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. – Herbert Spencer

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