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South Quotes by Miriam Makeba
- I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day,…
- In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it…
- 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…
- 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…
More South Quotes
- The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal… — Emily Greene Balch
- I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as… — Alan Ball
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan. — Benazir Bhutto
- In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. — Steven Biko
- Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered… — Conrad Black
- I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I… — Lewis Black
- I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one… — Ben Affleck
- My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights… — Edward de Bono
- I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America. — Jeff Bridges
- Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a… — Jan Brewer
- Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my… — Louise Brown