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“I believe that good writing is honest writing, it’s the kind of stuff that you are too embarrassed to share publicly.”

— Kopano Matlwa

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“Coconut spoke about identity and I think young people should be able to decide that for themselves.”

“’Coconut was an appeal to celebrate who we are and not be afraid and ashamed of that.”

“What does it mean to be black and who decides?”

“Being alive is the most dangerous thing in the world. Anything can happen at any time. It's safer to be dead.”

“We [society] allow a white girl to have all sorts of complexities, but at my time, there was only one way to be black.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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