Peter Abrahams quotes

Peter Abrahams was a South African novelist, journalist, and political commentator, celebrated for his works exploring race, colonialism, and social justice. His novels, such as "Mine Boy" and "A Wreath for Udomo," brought international attention to the struggles of black South Africans under apartheid. He used his writing to advocate for equality and human rights. Here are 7 of his quotes:

To get where you want to go, you can't only do what you like.

Peter Abrahams

In East, South and Central Africa, the minority manipulated the majority into believing the minority was the majority, that there were more whites in the world than blacks; instilled in the blacks a sense of inferiority, inadequacy, worthlessness.

Peter Abrahams

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

Peter Abrahams

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.

Peter Abrahams

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Peter Abrahams

I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth.

Peter Abrahams