23 Quotes by Bessie Head

I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice “Whites Only” was obscured. A few moments later a white man approached and shouted: ‘Get off!’ It never occurred to him that he was achieving the opposite of his dreams of superiority and had become a living object of contempt, that human beings, when they are human, dare not conduct themselves in such ways.

Life is such a gentle, treasured thing. I learn about it every minute. I think about it so deeply.

The rhythm of sunrise, the rhythm of sunset, filled her life.

Dikeledi could make no secret of the fact that, in relation to men, she often suffered from high blood pressure, except that the trouble with the bloodstream had eventually boiled down to one, unattainable man.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.