Athol Fugard

Without me breathing down your neck all the time, you’d lean even more to the right than you do now.

Sam, Willie ... is he in there with you boys?

But things will change, you wait and see.

I mean, how do I wash off yours and your father's filth?...I've also failed. A long time ago I promised myself I would do something, but you've just shown me...Master Harold...that I've failed.

There’s no question he’s smarter than I am, but does that give him the right to call me a name like that?

Anybody who lets facts interfere with his imagination is a person who will never enjoy anything else again.

You want to get into the story as well, do you?

We need a definition of greatness, and I suppose that would be somebody who... somebody who benefited all mankind."

Tonight I find Hilda and say sorry. And make promise I won't beat her no more. You hear me, Boet Sam?

It was you who start me ballroom dancing.

Aah, violence is the only way I can make people pay attention to me.