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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose we all struggle under censorship.

Nadine Gordimer

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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Struggle
Literature
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Black
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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