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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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"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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Miriam Makeba
"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."

Buying

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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
"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
"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
"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."

World

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

Home

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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
"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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Aberjhani

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

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Aberjhani

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

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Aberjhani

"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."

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Aberjhani

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

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Aberjhani

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

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Aberjhani

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

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Aberjhani

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."

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Aberjhani

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

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Aberjhani

"I hate women because they always know where things are."

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Aberjhani

"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

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