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

Source: Prologue, Makeba, My Story, with James Hall, 1987.
-- Miriam Makeba, (Mar 4 1932-2008), South African singer; Mother Africa sang African melodies; often starred with Harry Belafonte, 1960s; member of Paul Simon's Graceland Tour, 1987.

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