A Quote by Motsi Mabuse

I just want my daughter to grow up in a society where she feels accepted being South African, German and Ukrainian.

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Motsi Mabuse
South African - Dancer
Born: April 11, 1981

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.

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