Tag: Miriam Makeba

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Truth

Miriam Makeba | truth

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 can’t do anything about that.

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strength

Miriam Makeba | strength

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.

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society

Miriam Makeba | society

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

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parenting

Miriam Makeba | parenting

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

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Nature

Miriam Makeba | nature

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.

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music

Miriam Makeba | music

It’s a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don’t see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

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music

Miriam Makeba | music

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it’s third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it’s much more polite.

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Home

Miriam Makeba | home

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

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future

Miriam Makeba | future

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

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Miriam Makeba | change

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people’s ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

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