30 quotes
If a woman loves a man she does that which is good for him.
Mine Boy (1946)
An unbelievable thing happened. The second colored man knocked the first one down and ran down the street waving to Xuma.
Mine Boy (1946)
You write in English and already you are touching things that should not be mentioned.
Tell Freedom (1954)
The concerts and theatres, the libraries and the parks, the bookshops and the clean, fresh looking tearooms, the buses and departmental stores.
Tell Freedom (1954)
All the years of his life had been spent walking through the land; from east to west, then back; from north to south, then back.
Tell Freedom (1954)
Johannes drunk and Johannes sober were two different people.
Mine Boy (1946)
Leah left him and he collapsed in a heap. She looked down and spat. The she raised her heel and brought it down on his face.
Mine Boy (1946)
It seemed to me there was no sense in life. Things happened and no one seemed to know why.
Tell Freedom (1954)
A man's a man to the extent that he asserts himself. There's no assertion in your mine boy. There is confusion and bewilderment and acceptance. Nothing more.
Mine Boy (1946)
It's because I creep up on people, I creep up on them while their backs are turned. Then suddenly without knowing how they realise, I'm there and they want what's there. Only they can't have it.
A Wreath for Udomo (1956)
The natives did not like locations, and besides, they were all full, so the white man had started townships in the outlying district of Johannesburg in the hope of killing Vrededorp and Malay Camp.
Mine Boy (1946)
Twenty-second Street, the street where we lived, was strange and alien. The noise was frightening after the quiet of Elsburg.
Tell Freedom (1954)
He sat on the bed and held his head in his hands. Eliza had gone out with that sickly monkey dressed in the clothes of a white man. Why, even his hands were soft.
Mine Boy (1946)
Light is white: dark is black.
Tell Freedom (1954)
Entering is stepping into a new Dark Age. The sea had once been here. In its retreat it had left a white, unyielding sand, grown dirty with time. It had left almost a desert.
Tell Freedom (1954)
Oh––isn’t it lovely? That’s the one I want when we are rich!’ Her eyes were bright, her lips parted
Tell Freedom (1954)
He did not want to go there for fear he should meet Eliza. And she was like a devil in his blood. He could not forget her.
Mine Boy (1946)
If a man loves a woman he loves her. That is all. There is no bad and there is no good. There is only love. The only thing that is bad is if a man loves a woman and she loves him not.
Mine Boy (1946)
Found that the good things of this present are RESERVED FOR EUROPEANS ONLY
Tell Freedom (1954)
His white man had even tried to make friends with him because the other mine boys respected him so much. But a white man and a black man cannot be friends. They work together. That's all.
Mine Boy (1946)