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Miriam Makeba

"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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"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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"Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse."

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"I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator."

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"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."

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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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"And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film."

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"I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant."

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"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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"Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student."

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"I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!"

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"I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs."

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Miriam Makeba
"It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now."

Home

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Miriam Makeba
"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."

Buying

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Miriam Makeba
"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."

Nature

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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."

Boys

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Miriam Makeba
"You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important."

People

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Miriam Makeba
"In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home."

Home

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Miriam Makeba
"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."

Cause

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Miriam Makeba
"And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite."

Music

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Miriam Makeba
"Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time."

Change

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Miriam Makeba
"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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