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Manu Herbstein Quotes

born 1936 South Africa

Manu Herbstein (born 1936) is a South African author.

South Africa
Novelists

Also known as: Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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No one knows what the elephant ate to make it so big.

Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001)

He sees every female slave as just a vagina on two legs, she thought bitterly, not for the first time.

Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001)

Curiosity is unbecoming in the female sex. This girl's curiosity surely comes from your teaching her to read. An ability to read is prejudicial in any woman, in a slave doubly and triply so. It opens them to ideas unsuited to their station in life.

Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001)

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