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Miriam Tlali Quotes

1933–2017 South Africa

Miriam Tlali (11 November 1933 – 24 February 2017) was a South African novelist. She was the first black woman in South Africa to publish an English-language novel, Muriel at Metropolitan.

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Don't call me Nanny, your Nanny is looking after your kids at your house.

Muriel at Metropolitan (1975)

I can't stand those voices! Those baboons there, sitting there talking.

Muriel at Metropolitan (1975)

Botswana. It is not called Bechuanaland any more now.

Muriel at Metropolitan (1975)

My handwriting had never looked so beautiful. I had at last decided to free myself of the shackles which had bound not only my hands, but also my soul.

Muriel at Metropolitan (1975)

And I thought to myself, to think that my poor little niece is not even aware that she is so important. That her innocent request to pay me a visit can be regarded as a threat to the security of the great Republic of South Africa.

Muriel at Metropolitan (1975)

It was no use trying to speak to him. The long painful years of contact with the whites had developed within him a hard protective core of indifference to all their constant abusive reprimands. He was dead inside, I thought.

Muriel at Metropolitan (1975)

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