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Zukiswa Wanner Quotes

b. 1976

Zukiswa Wanner (born 1976) is a South African journalist, novelist and editor born in Zambia and now based in Kenya. Since 2006, when she published her first book, her novels have been shortlisted for awards including the South African Literary Awards (SALA) and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

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“How do you forgive someone who hasn't apologized? How do you forgive someone who hasn't acknowledged wrongdoing?”

What are the chances that we will make it? 25 percent. And yet, I, the eternal optimist, think that we may make it

What does being an artist mean if one can't hold a mirror to society and critique and also applaud it

I thus find myself unable to stay silent or keep an official decoration from a government that is this callous to human suffering

I wish that the German government, in reflection and saying 'never again' would acknowledge that never again should be for anybody

One did not need to be from a country with a history of apartheid to see the daily injustices and indignities visited on Palestinians

“I am the woman who,when the priest asks,"Is there any reason why this man and woman cannot be joined in holy matrimony?", would clear her throat or stand up to supposedly straighten her dress, thus making the groom and bride nervous for a minute.”

South African history has a phrase for this: Petty Apartheid

Attribution

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