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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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