If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
NADINE GORDIMER
I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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