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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
Nadine Gordimer
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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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It was a miracle it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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