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We can only create true art and thought by being rooted in our own native soil even if outwardly we soar high and imbibe the foreign.

— Herbert Dhlomo

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Let us forget our lamentations for once, and tell of our achievements.”

S Ndebele: Dinner for African Union Ministers (2007)

Great art or thought (art is thought-feeling) is more than racial and national. It is universal.

He wants a social order where every South African will be free to express himself and his personality fully.”.

And as ye would . . .and feel no crime In being human, fair and true; rejoice to see, like bird, All human souls sour happily and free; Unfettered, but encouraged to speak free.

Would you have me as a brother

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