66 Quotes by Athol Fugard

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man’s skin, then the racists have been right all along.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that’s all. And people are fools.

Every African soul is either carrying a bundle or in it. What is wrong with this world that it wants to waste you like that... my children... my Africa!

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn’t really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

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.