If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
NADINE GORDIMERIf 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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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