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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Communists are the last optimists.
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