If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is making sense of life.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Books dont need batteries
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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