“Umnandi would willingly have given up her beauty and stately mien and forgotten her skill in cookery, in return for the birth of a baby boy as a present for her husband and his people. She would gladly have gone… — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share
“The viewpoint of the ruler is not always the viewpoint of the ruled. [70]” — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share Image
“There’s always a return to the ruins, only to the womb there is no return. [191]” — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share Image
“The forests shook with the awful thunder of the guns, which stirred a wild agitation among the denizens of the day. Terrified game of every description scattered in all directions and fled for dear life; oxen bellowed in surprise and wild hounds yelped, wolves and jackals ran as though possessed by a legion of devils. Wild birds rushed out of… — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share
“He noticed further that no Boer ever interceded when a Hottentot was flogged; that in punishing Hottentots the Boers used dangerous weapons, the most familiar being the sjambok made of sea-cow hide, or the buckle end of a belt. Further he noticed that the number of lashes they applied to their servants was excessive and sometimes appalling. In these cases,… — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share
“I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me,… — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share Image
“Man, Ra-Thaga, I always told you that you had a brown skin over a white heart, but you wouldn’t believe me. [161]” — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share
“So long as there are two men left on earth there will be war. [169]” — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share Image
“That exactly is how my father and mother met and became man and wife. There were no home ceremonials, such as the seeking and obtaining of parental consent, because there were no parent; no conferences by uncles and grand-uncles, or exhortations by grandmothers and aunts; no male relatives to arrange the marriage knot, nor female relations to herald the family… — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share
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