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Miriam Makeba

"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."

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"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."

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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."

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