187 Quotes About South-africa

What happens to a mother in that second when she places her baby in the arms of someone else and turns away? And the lie? Who do you become the moment the deceit is formed on your tongue? When you first speak the words that your baby has died? Is there a diary entry buried somewhere in a loft full of cobwebs and regret that reveals even the slightest fragment of heartbreak?

Moral writing is boring.

As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood.

we have the most to learn from those who are different from us

The vast majority of South Africans, almost all of whom are black, almost always—if not always—attribute to Apartheid, the side effects of capitalism. (And that makes them very unlikely to question capitalism, let alone strive for its abandonment.)

You can only give things that you own, and you own only those things you consider you created.

Don't hate the haters

I think everyone that’s racist should stop calling others racist

I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.