“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Once you have some sort of reputation in the outside world, they will try to woo you. They will say, "Won't you… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa.… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
