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. -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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I was so scared. Such a big orchestra.

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I look at an ant and l 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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Ours was a marriage, a love affair -- the land would nurture us, and we would honor the land. But the land was too rich and too good. The powerful and greedy invaders saw this at once.

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Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

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