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Quotes from A Question of Power — Bessie Head

1937–1986 South Africa

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12 quotes

Who is the greater man - the man who cries, broken by anguish, or his scoffing, mocking, jeering oppressor?

A Question of Power (1973)

Love is so powerful, it's like unseen flowers under your feet as you walk.

A Question of Power (1973)

You don't realize the point at which you become evil.

A Question of Power (1973)

Be the same as others in heart; just be a person.”

A Question of Power (1973)

It is when you cry, in the blackest hour of despair, that you stumble on a source of goodness.”

A Question of Power (1973)

The loud, pounding rhythm of his drama drummed in her ears day and night.

A Question of Power (1973)

It was in Botswana where, mentally, the normal and the abnormal blended completely in Elizabeth’s mind.”

A Question of Power (1973)

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

A Question of Power (1973)

The year ended in a roar of pain.

A Question of Power (1973)

'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)

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)

When people stumble upon magic they study it very closely, because all living people are, at heart, amateur scientists and inventors. Why must racialists make an exemption of the black man? Why must she come here and help the black man with a special approach: ha, ha, ha, you're never going to come up to our level of civilisation?

A Question of Power (1973)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bessie Head (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.