Miriam Makeba Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

  Miriam Makeba

  Voice, Roots, People

  Miriam Makeba, Nomsa Mwamuka (2004). “Makeba: The Miriam Makeba Story”, Ste Pub

• 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.

  Miriam Makeba

  Animal, Past, People

• Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.

  Miriam Makeba

  Artist, Musician, Ministry

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