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Quotes by South-african Authors
"The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands."
"Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear."
"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."
"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."
"My Lovely GrandsonYour lovely smile that warms my heartYour infectious laughter that brings me joyI fell in love in with your charming characterGrandma's little boyMay God protect you in every aspect of your lifeMay He give you wisdom in everything you doMay He bless you and keep youAll the days of your life."
"I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect."
"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?"
"Right now I may not have it all, but I know my future is bright because as long as I live there is hope for my situation."
"Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen."
"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that."
"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."
"What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?"
"No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism."
"It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake."
"One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country."
"Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs, when buying a newspaper."
"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise."
"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
"As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred."
"Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace."
"I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY."
"The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach."
"All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis."
"All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture."
"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
"What's much harder is taking on people in your own community."
"The right vision to a wrong person is like the right seed to wrong soil."
"Victory honours the brave."
"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."
"Remember that whatsoever you desire, God is the most dependable provider."
"The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played with silly putty like the other kids. The first time he lost his eyebrows he was only five."
"When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer."
"Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve."
"Education is what they equip you with, just in case your dream doesn't workout."
"Sumone Yiden Smiff was a businessman of note. Was, past tense. Through years of sweat and swearing and amazingly smart (or lucky) deals he'd built up a mining empire that spanned the sum of known space. At 74 years, he had reached the apex of a career stretching half a century. His companies mined precious commodities like Impervium, Obstinatium and Bitanium. He wasn't really famous, or ostentatious. In fact he only ever made the cover of Fortune One Billion once, twenty-five years ago. He'd never married, had lots of children " light-years apart, apparently."
"We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book."
"The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term."
"Air freshener is man's pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion."
"Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food - just so they afford something to eat."
"For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election."
"It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now."
"I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution."
"While many people define being a man or a woman as being dependent on reproductive capacity, it is worth noting (should such a superficial argument present itself) that there are many males and females who are born male or female and cannot reproduce either. Are they to be considered 'not male' and 'not female'? Or does that only apply to transgender people?"
"I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life."
"There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists."
"Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful."
"In her 202s, a woman's breasts double her self-esteem. In her 402s, they halve it."
"Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed."
"I will never regret not denouncing apartheid."
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