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Quotes from Al-Ahram Weekly interview — Miriam Makeba

1932–2008 South Africa

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I look at an ant and see myself: a native South African, endowed with a strength much greater than my size, so I might cope with the weight of racism that crushes my spirit.

Al-Ahram Weekly interview (2001)

The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.

Al-Ahram Weekly interview (2001)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Miriam Makeba (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.