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Miriam Makeba

"It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves."

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Donna Grant

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

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Donna Grant

"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."

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Donna Grant

"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

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Donna Grant

"Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up."

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Donna Grant

"We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down."

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Donna Grant

"If there was one thing I'd like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean."

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Donna Grant

"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

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Donna Grant

"Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions."

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Donna Grant

"We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture."

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Miriam Makeba
"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career."

Music

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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
"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."

Change

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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
"It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves."

Woman

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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."

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