You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness. — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere” — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
“To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered.” — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met.… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole,… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
“Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.” — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time. — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
“You see, love is strong. Stronger than hate even. Love is the only thing that can kill hate, nothing else. You see, hate destroys… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
