It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world. — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them,… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
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