66 Quotes by Athol Fugard

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

My essential identity is that of a writer.

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.

Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they're living in.