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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Nadine Gordimer

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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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