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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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 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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Books dont need batteries
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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