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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Nadine Gordimer

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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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