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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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"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect."

"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."

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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."

"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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"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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"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."

"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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