All Athol Fugard Quotes
- We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. Compound
- Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools. All
- As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that… Fascinated
- You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love. Answer
- If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along. All
- For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very… Action
- I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting… Acting
- All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was… Africa
- There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.… Alone
- To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of… Constantly
- Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love. Anger
- Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone… All
- From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a… Avid
- With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans… Adverts
- Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground. Boy
- In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of… Africa
- My essential identity is that of a writer. Essential
- Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact. Creativity
- Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness -… Africa
- Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way. Audiences