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The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.

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For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight 'all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad' attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had to go or be forever lost.

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In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.

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I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me.

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The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.

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Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.

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Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

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All my life had been dominated by a sign, often invisible but no less real for that, which said: 'Reserved for Europeans Only.'

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My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.

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Most of the black women who lived in the lower end of Vrededorp came from the countryside and were there to be near their menfolk who worked in the mines. They spoke neither English nor Afrikaans.

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Novelist

Born: March 3rd, 1919

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