Inspiration can come from anywhere.
South African songstress Miriam Makeba often sang out against the iniquity of apartheid in her native South Africa. A New York Times obituary quoted her as saying:
"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 realizing."
Years later, she told an interviewer:
"I'm not a political singer. I don't know what the word means. People think I consciously decided to tell the world what was happening in South Africa. No! I was singing about my life, and in South Africa we always sang about what was happening to us — especially the things that hurt us."
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