All Quotes

"“And your Lord says, ‘Call upon Me; I will respond to you.’”"

"“Seek help through patience and prayer; indeed, Allah is with the patient.”"

"“The closest a servant is to his Lord is while he is in prostration.”"

"“Dua is worship.”"

"“The first thing for which a person will be called to account on the Day of Judgment will be prayer.”"

"“When one of you prays, he is conversing privately with his Lord.”"

"I am glad that I am bringing hope to young women and young girls that anything is possible, and there’s no such thing as you are dreaming too big or dreaming too small. If you strive to get there one day, I just feel like anything is possible, so I am really glad that I could be a role model for the young girls and women."

"Give it a go, give it a chance! Don’t hesitate if you feel like you want to play rugby, and it’s something you enjoy doing, keep on doing it"

"I think women’s rugby is definitely growing in South Africa, and there will be light at the end of the tunnel at the end of the day, so keep on dreaming big."

"Go to the field, go play touchies in the street. It’s all the little things that matter in the day, if we don’t give up and keep on pushing. No one said it’s gonna be easy, but when you think about it, it’s not even that hard, if you are actually doing stuff with passion."

"It means a lot that I’m a role model to many young girls and women. I remember when I was young, I looked up to people, and I am glad I could now be someone that people could look up to."

"For me, in my own area, there are many things happening, like gangsterism, and the kids are looking up to the fact that they can become a gangster one day, and the wrong things"

"I literally feel like we are capable, as South African female rugby players. I don’t think there would be a country that could stop us from getting a Cup, but obviously, we must think of the small blocks towards it, and not just jump through the main thing. That’s an inspiration to bring the cup home."

"If ever, like, I get the opportunity to go to a World Cup again, that is something I would really want to do, just to be part of a group that would bring a cup home."

"I came here for game time and I came here to play against other internationalists regularly in high quality matches. With so many internationals in the PWR after the World Cup the standard is likely to have gone up and that is exciting and a challenge we are ready for."

"As an experience, you can’t beat that. I’m also excited to be able to take what I learn here back home into the national squad and impart my knowledge to help South African women’s rugby continue to grow. Giving back is always one of the reasons why I do what I do and why I play rugby."

"We can realize the Africa we envision. The Africa we want is within our hand because Africa is young."

"A lot of the girls have PWR Cup games under their belt and we’re just excited to set our standards and a platform and then work from there and see where we’re at as a squad. I am definitely excited for what’s to come and I am excited to be playing in this league."

"I think the biggest ‘work on’ for me is focusing on my attack. I think I focused a lot on defence over the last couple of years and I’ve grown so much confidence in that space, but now I want to be an all-round play"

"In a few minutes’ time, our people will have won the right to do as they please, the right to choose their own path, the right to be included amongst the community of nations, equal in dignity to the greatest of them"

"Our national policy is to cooperate in wide range with all the freedom-loving and democratic countries of the world"

"This is Colonel Bokassa speaking to you.At 3 a.m. this morning, your army took control of the government. The Dacko government has resigned.The hour of justice is at hand! The bourgeoisie is abolished.A new era of equality among all has begun. Central Africans, wherever you may be, be assured that the army will defend you and your property.Long live the Central African Republic!"

"They were jealous of me because I had an empire and they didn’t"

"The cause of undertaking a work of this kind was a good will in this scribling age not to do nothing, and a disproportion in the powers of my mind, nothing of mine owne invention being able to passe the censure of mine owne judgement, much less, I presumed, the judgement of others.... If thy stomacke be so tender as thou canst not disgest Tacitus in his owne stile, thou art beholding to one who gives thee the same food, but with a pleasant and easie taste."

"The greatest thing about writing fiction is you don't know where the story is going. When I was writing Hlomu I became her - you internalise the character and you let her lead you"

"February has always been a dull month for me, a dreadful period where I’m tired and irritable. My sister says it’s my mind rebooting itself. I say I don’t know and I don’t care because, ironically, it is also the period where I’m most creative."

"at no point in my life did I sit down in a garden and inhale fresh air, watch flowers blooming under the blue sky and become inspired to write about broken men and the women who try to fix them"

"I don’t have a sacred writing space, but I do write better after midnight, when I’m surrounded by creative energy"

"The stories I write come from being a black woman in South Africa, the friendships and relationships I have had, families and what we perceive as love"

"It is them — because they are still buying my books and hyping them even five years later — who motivate me to continue writing"

"So many things have come out of my writing journey and the risk I took to publish myself. The best one is the growing fearlessness about telling our stories as they are and using familiar language to tell them."

"I don't think anything inspires creativity for me. I just wanted to write a story about black people."

"I'd rather someone talk to me about the characters in my books than my style of writing. I wanted it to appeal to someone on a social grant, to someone in an executive office."

"The fact that you have a gift that is different from a lot of people… that you can create things and the understanding of the value of that and what it can do for you. You need to understand what intellectual property is. Artists and creators, rarely ever consult an intellectual property attorney or ask questions or some of them don’t even know that those exist. So, you need to have that information. The research and the knowledge and protecting what you have created, there are ways to protect what you do"

"Karan Soni - Deshpande"

"Jack Mikesell - Ray"

"Woody Fu - Dave"

"Darinka Arones - Kusimayu"

"Allan McLeod - Bob"

"Rhea Seehorn - Carol Sturka"

"Karolina Wydra - Zosia"

"Carlos Manuel Vesga - Manousos"

"Miriam Shor - Helen"

"Samba Schutte - Koumba Diabaté"

"Peter Bergman - Davis Taffler"

"Max Reeves - Margaux"

"Anna Mhairi - Vesper"

"Olivia Rouyre - Genevieve"

"Esther Omegba - Jasmine"

"Imani Love - Cleo"