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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."

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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Donna Grant

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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Donna Grant

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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Donna Grant

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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Donna Grant

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

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Donna Grant

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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Donna Grant

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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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
"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
"It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American."

Life

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Miriam Makeba
"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."

Truth

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

Home

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Miriam Makeba
"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."

Age

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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."

Work

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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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