“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a white man approached and shouted: 'Get off!' It never occurred to him that he was achieving… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
“The contradictions were apparent to Makhaya, and perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
“That is, adoration was patient and waiting while love or, if you liked, plain sexual passion banged everything about. It either shouted or thought… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity. — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul. — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
