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Ours was a marriage, a love affair -- the land would nurture us, and we would honor the land. But the land was too rich and too good. The powerful and greedy invaders saw this at once.

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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