Nadine Gordimer

But there's no indemnity. You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

Communists are the last optimists.

There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

The main reason why we're still where we are is blacks haven't united as blacks because we're told all the time to do it is to be racist.

When the body is no longer an attraction, an expression of desire, to bare your breasts and belly is simple; you lay like dogs or cats grateful for the sun.

Our liberation cannot be divorced from black consciousness because we cannot be conscious of ourselves and at the same time remain slaves -

The will is my own. The emotion's my own. The right to be inconsolable. When I feel, there's no 'we', only 'I'.

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

The blackman is not fighting for equality with whites. Blackness is the blackman refusing to believe the whiteman's way of life is best for blacks.