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Mohale Mashigo Quotes

born 1983 South Africa

Mohale Mashigo (born Kgomotso Carol Mashigo; 1983) (and also known by her stage name Black Porcelain) is a South African singer-songwriter, novelist, and former radio presenter. Her debut novel The Yearning (Pan Macmillan, 2016) won the 2017 University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Debut Writing and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018.

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The city is like that: it loves new and shiny things; which also leads it to be a graveyard of previously beautiful relics.

I definitely feel the world lacks a sense of humour

I birthed myself; it was bloody and painful but now I’m standing on the roof of a city as something new.

Koko and I somehow had the ability to walk alongside our hurt and disappointment; we never let it get ahead of us or lead us astray.’

Things that lurk in the shadows do not like the light. People get used to one tiny light and begin to seek out more of it in the world and in themselves – that’s how the light liberates us.

Being liked is not nearly as great as being happy with the decisions I make. I'm not money, so I know not everyone likes me

How could he possibly describe anything when the world around him had lost its colour

It’s fantasy when white people write it. When black and brown people write it, it’s magic realism

I try as a reader to put myself in places I’ve never been to, in the shoes of people I would never meet

I don’t think all women need to birth themselves

I write for myself and then I edit for the reader, to make things easier for them, to refine the ideas

I do like this idea of time. For me there is no before or after. It’s all during. It’s just a bunch of “durings.” I don’t think of myself as someone in the past, I’m a person going through something. I do like to see how these “durings” influence the future.

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