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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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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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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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