"Why don’t they do something so we can handle this once and for all! They’re wearing me down!"

"For my grandmother, Esther Makatini, who washed white people's clothes so that I could learn to write."

"In a few days I am to die. Strange, the idea neither shocks nor frightens me…"

"We were lovers in everything but in name."

"Apartheid? We had defeated apartheid. We had finally perfected a method of making love even without making contact, u…"

"...as I was to later find out, the skin was neither soft nor the hair so smooth as I had first imagined."

"Good gracious, man! Are you trying to tell the court that your people had never heard of orgies before the white man …"

"Why believe the word of the girl against mine,... Except for the whiteness of her skin, a color that has caused more …"

"No, I'll die of a vaster, deeper, more cruel conspiracy by the ruler of my country who have made a certain knowledge …"

"The day you come across my uncle Sekala no-one will need to point him out to you! Try to imagine a monster six-foot-t…"