"In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land,"

-- Miriam Makeba

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“The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.”
“Freedom was the price of privacy.”
“You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.”

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“Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.”
“You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.”
“Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.”
“It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children and I think, they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.”
“Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”

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