Consciousness Quote by 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 understand your…

— 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 a by-product…

— 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 had met.…

— 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. I stole,…

— Peter Abrahams

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

— Peter Abrahams

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

— Peter Abrahams

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

— Peter Abrahams

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

— Peter Abrahams

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

— Peter Abrahams