Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

Miriam Makeba

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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

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• In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

  

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• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

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• No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.

  

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• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

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• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

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• Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!

  

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• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  

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• The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

  

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• Composition has almost always been solitary.

  

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• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  

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• O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.

  

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• I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

  

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• I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.

  

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• Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

  

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• When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.

  

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• I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

  

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• Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

  

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• It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat.

  

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• I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Women
  • Black
  • Style