Es'kia Mphahlele

"The Black man must enter the white man’s house through the back door. The Black man does most of the dirty work… Black man cleans the streets but mustn’t walk freely on the pavement; Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them; Black man cooks the white man’s food but eats what is left over."

"We’d never really known father before. And now living close to him and seeing him at close quarters, I realised that his face was unlikeable."

"You’ll come back and be able to look after yourself and the two you’re leaving behind."

"The Black man must enter the white man’s house through the back door. The Black man does most of the dirty work…"

"When they were not working they had children without being able to secure a man they could really call a husband."