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Quotes by South-african Authors
"As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are."
"I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again."
"I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me."
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
"Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything."
"You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again."
"One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this."
"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career."
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
"Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member."
"I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to."
"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time."
"Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it."
"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."
"So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that."
"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."
"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses."
"The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge."
"I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films."
"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."
"Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs."
"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."
"The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area."
"Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people."
"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
"Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it."
"We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society."
"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him."
"Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?"
"Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves."
"Air freshener is man's pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion."
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."
"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."
"I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark."
"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
"And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do."
"Without forgiveness, there's no future."
"I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work."
"Isn't it strange that having a dick automatically makes you a man, but having a vagina isn't enough to make me a woman?"
"Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men."
"The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see."
"Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects."
"It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight."
"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."
"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."
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