South-africa Quotes
It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.
I cannot pinpoint a moment when I became politicized, when I knew that I would spend my life in the ...
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To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby ...
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Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white c...
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- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not...
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Have you a room that you could let?""Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to let i...
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love th...
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Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...
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We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and mo...
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A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not...
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Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mund...
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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small...
Show MoreI would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.
