Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
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I've been able to work with some incredible voice talent, most of whom I grew up hearing in my favorite cartoons.
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When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!
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Sometimes you're going to win close fights, and that's the way it is.
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We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.
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I feel like I put it together better than anybody else. I don't feel like I'm the best dancer. I don't feel like I'm the best singer. I don't feel like I'm the best looking. I feel like I'm the best at putting it all together.
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What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.
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Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
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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.
