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Miriam Makeba

"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls."

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"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls."

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"Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off."

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"We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe."

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"Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer."

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"We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world."

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"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there."
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"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."
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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 want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."
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"It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now."
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"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 I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."
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"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better."
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"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career."
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"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources."
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"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."
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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 now, it is taxing on me."
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