"Botswana. It is not called Bechuanaland any more now."

"It was no use trying to speak to him. The long painful years of contact with the whites had developed within him a ha…"

"Don't call me Nanny, your Nanny is looking after your kids at your house."

"For him as well as Aggripa, this is home. Adam will only leave here when he's a corpse. Where can he go to? He is a "…"

"And I thought to myself, to think that my poor little niece is not even aware that she is so important. That her inno…"

"These damnable laws which dictate to you where, and next to whom, you shall walk, sit, stand and lie... This whole ab…"

"My handwriting had never looked so beautiful. I had at last decided to free myself of the shackles which had bound no…"

"In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being: he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act …"

"We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of th…"

"Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side."