Racial tension Quote by St. Lucia

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

— Roselee Goldberg

When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white hatred here.…

— June Jordan

In South Africa in 1987, apartheid was still going strong. Some of the most brutal race laws had been relaxed, but they hadn't yet…

— John Kani

You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point of view.…

— Trevor Rabin

Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the…

— Roger Rees

I had to look at white people as fellow South Africans and fellow partners in building a new South Africa.

— John Kani

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

— Fela Kuti

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

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me…

— Cybill Shepherd

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only…

— Bruce Beresford

When you’re young, your world is pretty limited. My parents, my family, my church dominated my world. And because Birmingham was so segregated, I…

— Condoleezza Rice