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Was he crying now because, for the first time in his life, he was feeling what it must be like to face a tomorrow without any future?
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
Things wouldn’t have been so bad if black men as a whole had not accepted their oppression and added to it with their own taboos and traditions.
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
The year ended in a roar of pain.
A Question of Power (1973)
I don’t care about people. I don’t care about anything, not even the white man. I want to feel what it is like to live in a free country and then maybe some of the evils in my life will correct themselves.
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
MakhayaMaseko’s quest is to find inner peace of mind by a constructive engagement with the social world and in the world of GolemaMmidi, these desires are offered fulfilment
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
In this country there is a great tolerance of evil. It is because of death that we tolerate evil. All meet death in the end, and because of death we make allowance for evil though we do not like it.
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
There was always something on this earth man was forced to love and worship by reason of its absence. People in cloudy, misty climates worshiped the sun, and people in semi-desert countries worshipped the rain.
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)
A basically timid and cowardly person dare not presume to speak for others. He can only speak for himself. [A Personal View of the Survival of the Unfittest
The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)
'God isn't a magical formula for me,' ... 'God isn't a switched-on, mysterious, unknown current. I can turn to and, by doing so, feel secure in my own nobility.
A Question of Power (1973)
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)
A woman is a maker of pottery, feeling life with her hands, keeping it whole, moulding it from the depths upwards. Her vision is constant, unchanging. [Where is the Hour of the Beautiful Dancing of Birds in the Sun-wind?
The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)
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)
The man really [is] a child.
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses (1973)
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)
When someone says 'my people' with a specific stress on the blackness of those people, they are after kingdoms and permanently child-like slaves. 'The people' are never going to rise above the status of 'the people'. They are going to be told what is good for them by the 'mother' and the 'father'.
A Question of Power (1973)
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)