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Quotes by South-african Authors
"I am not lucky, but I am favoured because luck runs out; but God's favour will abide with me forever."
"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."
"In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for."
"If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers."
"Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to."
"Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects."
"The facts are always less than what really happened."
"Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy."
"Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish."
"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
"Some mommies and daddies find it hard to acceptKids who are different to the normal set."
"An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being."
"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
"Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing."
"The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. "The Hammer stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart."
"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."
"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."
"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village."
"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."
"To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit, and (3) a few psychology books."
"When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that."
"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
"I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge."
"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?"
"You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam."
"A realist is a slave to reality."
"Nothing is free' asserts two things. Both assertions are true."
"He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work."
"Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?"
"It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited."
"I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe."
"Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go."
"Everyone of us has a high mountain to climb and a deep valley to level but the only thing makes us different to each other is the way we deal with these obstacles."
"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."
"Prayer and fasting is what every Christian needs because prayer empowers you while fasting humbles you to be a better child of God."
"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
"We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!"
"So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country."
"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."
"To expect the other people to spoon-feed you shows the lack of hunger, thirst or drive to push forward the things you desire to accomplish."
"I almost thought that marriage was a cure to loneliness, alas! so many are lonely inside marriage. Then I realized it's not marriage that takes the loneliness away, but when both within marriage honour God and the vows made before Him."
"One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible."
"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls."
"My ship " the Demeter, was a star-liner operated by the Red Star Line. I say 'was' because of the events you will read about in this account. This is a long letter, I know, but I had quite a long time to write it. You probably already know this, having seen the commercials running on all the major channels for the last twenty years or so, but the Red Star Line is the largest cruise operator in the known universe. Unless something has changed between now and by the time you read this, this is probably still true. In fact, customers of the Red Star Line get more quality, value for money " and smiles by Demeter than they do anywhere else. Okay, okay. It's an old joke " corny for sure, but what the hell."
"Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed."
"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
"I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches."
"The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest."
"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."
"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
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