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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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"Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist."

"I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave."

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"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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 lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that."

"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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