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Quotes from Burger's Daughter — Nadine Gordimer

1923–2014 South Africa

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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

But there's no indemnity. You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

Conrad went off some evenings for Spanish lessons and sometimes came back with the girl who taught him.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

For nearly thirty years the Communist Party allied itself as a legal organization with the African struggle for black rights and the extension of the franchise to the black majority.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

It'll be enough to take your mind off your stomach. - When lovers cannot touch, they tease each other instead.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

The blackman is not fighting for equality with whites. Blackness is the blackman refusing to believe the whiteman's way of life is best for blacks.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

Communists are the last optimists.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

Strong emotion - faith? - has different ways of being manifested among the different disciples within which people order their behaviour.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

When the body is no longer an attraction, an expression of desire, to bare your breasts and belly is simple; you lay like dogs or cats grateful for the sun.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

The main reason why we're still where we are is blacks haven't united as blacks because we're told all the time to do it is to be racist.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

The will is my own. The emotion's my own. The right to be inconsolable. When I feel, there's no 'we', only 'I'.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

Our liberation cannot be divorced from black consciousness because we cannot be conscious of ourselves and at the same time remain slaves -

Burger's Daughter (1979)

Flora pretended to cuddle me against the cold, but I didn't need her kind of emotional excitation. She talked about 'the girls' in there, and my mother was one of them.

Burger's Daughter (1979)

Attribution

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