Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

Miriam Makeba

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Actions
  • Without
  • Protest

• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Beauty
  • Voice
  • Charming

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Other

• All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Movies

• President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Revolution

• All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Happy

• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Always
  • Everyday
  • Miracle

• Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Yourself

• Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Dream

• I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Chicago
  • Exchange

• Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Time
  • Real
  • Feeling

• 'I do not need nobody tellin' me who I am! I know who I am!...I be walkin' down the hallway, they call me names. They call me faggot, they call me sissy, I say, 'Oh yeah? Well, you forgot, I'm also a model and a actress, so fuck you too!''

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Model

• I want to wear things that make me feel good.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Good

• My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.

  

  Jerry Saltz

• There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Up

• I want mainstream artists to accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English.

  

  J Balvin
  • English

• And I realize now that that was . . . that’s the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that you’re loved, let it wash over you.

  

  Esther Earl
  • Love
  • Realize
  • Wash

• It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • Music
  • Environment
  • Listening

• I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Water
  • Sound

• People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • People
  • World
  • Normal

• There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • World
  • Music
  • Song