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It is how societies are organized that says how they will eradicate ignorance.

— Mongane Wally Serote

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The quality of life of the people—the way people lived—affected me.

Writing, which is a segment of culture which is life itself, cannot be divorced from economics or politics.

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Writing is a segment of culture which is life itself.

The first commitment of any writer is to politics; the second, which makes the writer, is in writing.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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