Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.

Miriam Makeba

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• I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Celebrity
  • Pretend
  • Commercial

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Ancient
  • Bloody
  • Haunted

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• We knew we were going to do a fashion line at some point.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Fashion
  • Point
  • Line

• Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Mother
  • Fear

• My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

  

  David Mamet

• The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Nature

• I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Song

• I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

  

  James Herbert
  • High
  • Literature

• I'm not going to worry about proving people wrong. My goal isn't to prove people wrong. You can't worry about what other people say.

  

  Draymond Green
  • People
  • Worry

• I've been on my grandfather's boat, Calypso, twice in my life. My mother raised me in a pretty typical middle-class life.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.

  

  Blake Lively

• Nothing beats hard work.

  

  Lubna Olayan
  • Work

• I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Night

• A queen does not wear clothes off the runways.

  

  Edward Enninful

• I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" - they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do is become aware, in a moment of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Law

• Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

  

  Ryan Sheckler
  • Trying

• It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Passion