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• Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.
• I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73…
• There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day…
• People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are…
• Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you…
• Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them
• I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth…
• I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They…
• I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa…
• But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.
• In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.
• In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little…

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