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Well-educated men often come to the crossroad of life .. One road might lead to fame and importance, and another might lead to peace of mind. It's the road of peace of mind that I'm seeking. [
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
The country presented overwhelming challenges, he said, not only because the rainfall was poor but because the majority of the people engaged in subsistence farming were using primitive techniques that ruined the land. All this had excited his interest.
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
“It’s Zulu … I am a Zulu. And he laughed sarcastically at the thought of calling himself a Zulu
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
Dinorego was saying, ‘We can progress too, even though we are uneducated men. The mind of an uneducated man works like this: he is a listener and a believer. Most of all he is a believer.’
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
“the poverty and tribalism of Africa [are] a blessing if people [can] develop, sharing everythingwith each other
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
it would seem to suggest that Africanness is not a natural state of existence, [but that] it must be performed
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
He had grown up in an atmosphere where the most important thing in the world was the stronger whose shadow darkened the doorstep. People were the central part of the universe of Africa, and the world stood still because of this.
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
Therefore the Good God cast one last look at Makhaya, whom he intended revenging almightily for his silent threat to knock him down. He would so much entangle this stupid young man with marriage and babies and children that he would always have to think, not twice but several hundred times, before he came to knocking anyone down.
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
No words, however wise, could explain the awfulness of the death, not while the living were firmly attached to love, child-bearing, child-rearing, hunger, struggle, and the sunrise of tomorrow. Life had to flow all the time, for the living, like water in a stream.
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
…the Tswana language [like] the bush, [belongs] to all Batswana people
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
One might go so far as to say that it is strong, dominating personalities who might play a decisive role when things are changing. Somehow they always manage to speak with the voice of authority, and their innate strength of character drives them to take the lead in almost any situation. Allied to all this is their boundless optimism and faith in their fellow men.
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)