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Do not be afraid of criticism, and for goodness sake, you are not a writer if you are just sitting in your bedroom and just writing page after page after page. You are only a writer when other people say you are a writer.

— Barolong Seboni

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Literature is the highest form of civilization.

When you write a poem, you are not writing to say I want to “disturb the peace.” You are saying, ‘This is wrong.

I love my beautiful black people
for being black in the wash of whiteness.

I love my black people
from all four corners of this round earth.

Botswana is that place that is not out of the norm in terms of what Africa is, but a place that has the greatest potential to show the world that Africa is possible.

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