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

"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."

"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."

"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."

"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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