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There Are A Lot Of Homes For Boys, But Very Few For Girls, That Is Why I Chose To Do For Girls.

You Are Damned And Praised, Or Encouraged Or Discouraged By Those Who Listen To You, And Those Who Come To Applaud You. And To Me, Those People Are Very Important.

Belafonte Sent His People To Pick Me Up And I Went Back And Shook His Hand, Then Went Back To My Little Flat. I Was Very Happy To Have Met A President Of The United States - Little Me!

And Why Is Our Music Called World Music? I Think People Are Being Polite. What They Want To Say Is That It's Third World Music. Like They Use To Call Us Under Developed Countries, Now It Has Changed To Developing Countries, It's Much More Polite.

I Didn't Have Much, But I Was Always Happy To Share What I Did Have. It Seemed Like Every African That Came To New York City Would Show Up At My Apartment Door At Dinnertime, And I Couldn't Turn Them Away. I Wasn't Much Older Than Any Of Them, But They Started Calling Me 'mama Africa' And The Name Stuck.