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Miriam Makeba has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.
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I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73…
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There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day…
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People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are…
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Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you…
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Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them
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I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth…
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I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They…
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I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa…
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But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.
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In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.
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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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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed…
— A. Whitney Brown
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In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little…
— Miriam Makeba
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As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who…
— Antony Sher
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We in the Great White North but you can bite my White South!
— John Cena
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Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
— Antony Sher
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Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
— Dave Matthews
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If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white…
— Neill Blomkamp
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Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask…
— Athol Fugard
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It makes me sick when you come out here and run your little mouth. Were in the Great White North but you…
— John Cena
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