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For my grandmother, Esther Makatini, who washed white people's clothes so that I could learn to write.

— Lewis Nkosi Mating Birds (1986)

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Good gracious, man! Are you trying to tell the court that your people had never heard of orgies before the white man came to this continent?

Mating Birds (1986)

Why don’t they do something so we can handle this once and for all! They’re wearing me down!

The Rhythm of Violence (1964)

Oh Mr Bulane, what a sight to greet the plains of Tabanyane!

Underground People (2002)

My chubby little brother! Perhaps he’s having a little ‘crisis of conscience’!’ perhaps, because of their culture.

The Rhythm of Violence (1964)

We were lovers in everything but in name.

Mating Birds (1986)

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