“Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste ...” — Peter Abrahams Quote

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

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

“There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it.”

“From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.”

“My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.”

“We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.”