The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer. — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
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… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
He [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope,… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
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,… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share
