Mafika Gwala Quotes
1946–2014 South Africa
Mafika Gwala (5 October 1946 – 5 September 2014) was a contemporary South African poet and editor, writing in English and Zulu.
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I am not particularly interested in peoples’ perspectives of me, or what they think of me.
I create for my own benefit, not for others.
I am not in the habit of ‘writing for glory.
Well, if some people are culture makers, then so be it.
You cannot divorce language from power.
I have been always where I am today. Why do they speak of me as if I am emerging from the dark?
I went out of the country and when I came back it was a different place.
We didn’t take Black Consciousness as a kind of Bible, it was just a trend a necessary one because it meant bringing in what the white opposition couldn’t bring into the struggle.
So firstly, I didn’t feel there was a space for me. Secondly, I felt I needed a rest.
Shed the inferiority thing from the Black Man, he had to accept himself with the Black face, the situation as it was, rather than as a consequence of being Black . . . to accept his tribal or African background is to accept that there is nothing wrong with being Black.