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Lewis Nkosi Quotes

1936–2010 South Africa

Lewis Nkosi (5 December 1936 – 5 September 2010) was a South African writer and journalist, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing by the Suppression of Communism Act and the Publications and Entertainment Act passed in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Random Lewis Nkosi quote

7 quotes

For my grandmother, Esther Makatini, who washed white people's clothes so that I could learn to write.

Mating Birds (1986)

Good gracious, man! Are you trying to tell the court that your people had never heard of orgies before the white man came to this continent?

Mating Birds (1986)

Why don’t they do something so we can handle this once and for all! They’re wearing me down!

The Rhythm of Violence (1964)

Oh Mr Bulane, what a sight to greet the plains of Tabanyane!

Underground People (2002)

My chubby little brother! Perhaps he’s having a little ‘crisis of conscience’!’ perhaps, because of their culture.

The Rhythm of Violence (1964)

We were lovers in everything but in name.

Mating Birds (1986)

In a few days I am to die. Strange, the idea neither shocks nor frightens me…

Mating Birds (1986)

Attribution

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