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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In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.
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I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.
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I look at a stream and I see myself a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear -- flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.
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