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Miriam Makeba

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

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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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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."

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"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."

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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

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"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."

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"I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me."

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"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."

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"So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home."

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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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"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."
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"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."
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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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"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."
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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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"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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"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."
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"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."
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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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