Love Quote by Bessie Head

“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

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

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

— Bessie Head

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

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

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

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

— Bessie Head

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

— Bessie Head

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

“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

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

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people...

— Bessie Head