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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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 making sense of life.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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