Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

Miriam Makeba

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• Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

  

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• In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

  

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• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

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• Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.

  

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• I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

  

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• I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.

  

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• Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?

  

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• I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

  

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• Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.

  

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• I just love the idea of never seeing a city before and seeing the glow in the distance, and it just looking frightening, like you're driving into a fire.

  

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• I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it's like, 'You're not doing enough in your life if you're not making someone angry.' And I'm like, 'Man. But my life - I seem to help people get somewhere, so am I not? Should I be more aggressive?' That's the way my inside voice sounds.

  

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• I have never wanted to leave Malayalam films.

  

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• I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.

  

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• People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

  

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• Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard.

  

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• I was born and raised in Detroit.

  

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• I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

  

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• The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death.

  

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• I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.

  

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• The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.

  

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• In 90 minutes, anything can happen.

  

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• But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • World
  • Blinders