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Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams
South African Novelist
Born: Mar 3, 1919
Died: Jan 18, 2017
Black Important Man Mother South Africa World
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
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
Dreams Myself World Books Born Shakespeare Poetry Self Self-Consciousness New Know Terms New World Standards Consciousness Desired Desires Set
A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness. Peter Abrahams
Today Thoughts Man Anger Tomorrow Bitterness Free Feeling Submission Submit Others Ten Voice Had True Equal Because Real Were Been Real Feeling Submitted Order Bred Show Who Nearly Million Resist
Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it? Peter Abrahams
Humanity Progress Simplicity Thought Important Become Those Must Component Insincere Civilization Most Involved Go Human The Most Important Processes Interest Warp Who Mechanical
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. Peter Abrahams
Lost Own Changed Carried Bootstraps Dream Magic Them Much Many
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
Wealth School Matter Three Reading Everyman Books Possessions Finding Favourite John Shakespeare Write Attended Tales Read Learned Greatest Edition Proudest Dearest Were Years Stole Golden Lamb Regularly Keats Treasury Two
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. Peter Abrahams
Angry Inferiority Desperate Overwhelming Young Mood Tensions Sharp Familiar Sensitive Poor Painful Who Awaits Dispossessed Violently
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
Life Attitude Me Impossible Made Met Lost South Africa Meeting Some Point Had Come Reached Go Were Been South End Friends Forever Gestures Suspect Africa Where Straight Them Personally Whites Lucky Even Among
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. Peter Abrahams
Freedom Long Country South Africa Caribbean Plus Similar Had Sought Islands South Africa Jamaica Racial Found
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. Peter Abrahams
Me Women World Men Men And Women Every Marked Books Through Colour Writings Read Became Shelf American Nationalist Literature Who Lived Away
Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living. Peter Abrahams
Positive Best Job Awareness Living Earning Way Best Way Educated South South African African Social Teaching Mechanical Zero Among
Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa. Peter Abrahams
Life South Africa Find Could Colour Had Perhaps South Africa Race Meaning
We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime. Peter Abrahams
Too Late Important Young Too Late Right Questions Unanswered Haunt Lifetime Miss Answers Questions Ask Us Illuminating Now Right
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. Peter Abrahams
Pressure Minority Stronger Only Count Between Qualitative Majority Because Difference Being Psychological Aware Numbers
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
Inferiority World Minority Sense East Worthlessness Blacks More Instilled Majority Were South Than Africa Central Inadequacy Manipulated Whites Believing

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