More - Miriam Makeba Quotes

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra

Miriam Makeba

 

Mama Africa.

Miriam Makeba

 Africa

We Know the Importance of Cuba

Miriam Makeba

 

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.

Miriam Makeba

 

People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.

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

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I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear -- flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

Miriam Makeba

 Obstacles

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

Miriam Makeba

 

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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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

 South African Musician