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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In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.
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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.
Miriam Makeba
