"In the morning he had a moment of hallucinatory horror when he saw the blood of the pig on his penis--then understood…"

"If I offended you, if I hurt your dignity, if what I thought was my friendliness, the feeling I had for you--if that …"

"He would no sooner shoot a buck than a man; and he did not keep any revolver under his pillow to defend his wife, his…"

"For the twentieth, the hundredth time, since the pass-burnings of the Fifties, since Sharpeville, since Soweto '76 si…"

"It was early morning but in their hut the women were dreamy, as at the end of the day... Perhaps they had been out si…"

"White people here! Didn't you tell us many times how they live, there. A room to sleep in, another room to eat in, an…"

"But the transport of a novel, the false awareness of being within another time, place and life that was the pleasure …"

"Bam and Maureen had longed for cigarettes, for a drink of wine or spirits, their children had craved for sweet things…"

"The chief had the sharp, impatient, skeptical voice of a man quicker than the people he keeps around him, but knew no…"

"The mists of the night left a vivid freshness that dispels the sickly ammoniacal odour of fowl droppings, the fetid c…"