"It is very much the theme of our……" — Miriam Makeba
"It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves."
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29 Quotes by Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba has 29 quotes on this site.
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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…
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There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until…
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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…
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Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the…
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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…
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I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be…
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I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image…
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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…
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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