Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even… — 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