In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the … - Miriam Makeba

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When I stopped looking at food as a reward or a celebration and began looking at food as energy to fuel my athletic ambitions, that really kind of changed the whole world for me. That was the real 'aha!' moment.

Miriam Makeba

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.

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People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals. . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.

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I look at the past and I see myself.

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But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

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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.

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It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U. S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

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