Phrase by 'Peter Abrahams'

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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.

Author: Peter Abrahams - South African Novelist
  Angry , Poor , Mood , Young


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.

Author: Peter Abrahams - South African Novelist
  Life , Me , Friends , Attitude


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.

Author: Peter Abrahams - South African Novelist
  Long , Freedom , Country , Africa


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.

Author: Peter Abrahams - South African Novelist
  Me , World , Men , Women


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

Author: Peter Abrahams - South African Novelist
  Best , Way , Job , Positive


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

Author: Peter Abrahams - South African Novelist
  Life , Find , Race , Meaning


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

Author: Peter Abrahams - South African Novelist
  Life , My Life , Said , Real


Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.

Author: Peter Abrahams - South African Novelist
  Man , Important , Dead , Present


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

Author: Peter Abrahams - South African Novelist
  Work , Children , Money , Mother


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.

Author: Peter Abrahams - South African Novelist
  Black , Women , End , English


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