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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
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Decide Destroy Eath Forget Heaven People Rationalism Set Utopia Would
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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
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Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer
Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
Books dont need batteries
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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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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No

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