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Miriam Inspirational Quotes (78)

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I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.
Miriam
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I look at the past and I see myself.
Miriam Makeba
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I do feel like once you know you are someone who is in the world and there are other countries and cultures, that stays with you and your decision-making forever.
Miriam Shor
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Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.
Miriam Makeba
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If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.
Miriam Toews
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I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.
Miriam Toews
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In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
Miriam Makeba
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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.
Miriam Makeba
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If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
Miriam Makeba
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I must say, I find everything interesting.
Miriam
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It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.
Miriam Toews
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Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.
Miriam Toews
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I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me 'Mama Africa' and the name stuck.
Miriam Makeba
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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.
Miriam Makeba
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...and I put on All My Love and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?
Miriam Toews
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He [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.
Miriam Makeba
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It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks
Miriam
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How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?
Miriam Hopkins
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I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
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Travel. You need to know you're a citizen of the world.
Miriam Shor
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Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?
Miriam Toews
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I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.
Miriam Makeba
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Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
Miriam Toews
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I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.
Miriam Toews
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