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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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 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 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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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