Peter Abrahams

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…

— Peter Abrahams

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.

— Peter Abrahams

“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere”

— Peter Abrahams

My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was…

— Peter Abrahams

“To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered.”

— Peter Abrahams

For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I…

— Peter Abrahams

I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter.…

— Peter Abrahams

The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of…

— Peter Abrahams

To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any…

— Peter Abrahams

“Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.”

— Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon…

— Peter Abrahams

“You see, love is strong. Stronger than hate even. Love is the only thing that can kill hate, nothing else. You see,…

— Peter Abrahams

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

— Peter Abrahams

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know…

— Peter Abrahams

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not…

— Peter Abrahams

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know…

— Peter Abrahams

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each…

— Peter Abrahams

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

— Peter Abrahams

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

— Peter Abrahams

“I don't want anything now, Sarie thought, not a thing in the world. I have everything I want. Yesterday I wanted so…

— Peter Abrahams