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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• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

  

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• Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

  

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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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• The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

  

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• I have always been immersed in a world filled with words, earlier as a reader and now, finally, as both a reader and a writer.

  

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

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • World
  • Blinders