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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
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In The West The Past Is Like

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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