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What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?
— Peter Abrahams
I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.
— Karen Salmansohn
If I'm a criminal, and I'm confronted with a 7-foot tall cop and an albino cop, I'm gonna be so lost, I'm spilling my guts.
— Joelle Carter
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?
— Amanda Lindhout
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writerhistory shows it's better if you're not
but you have to understand your badness. — Peter Abrahams
To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.
— Peter Abrahams
Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.
— Peter Abrahams
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.
— Peter Abrahams
All my life had been dominated by a sign, often invisible but no less real for that, which said: 'Reserved for Europeans Only.'
— Peter Abrahams
In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
— Peter Abrahams
The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.
— Peter Abrahams
But we are engaged in a bitter and eternal war with small things; chiefly with microbes and with collar studs.
— G.K. Chesterton
Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere
— Peter Abrahams
They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.
— Peter Abrahams
My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.
— Peter Abrahams
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Father is Everyone's First Preceptor.Happy Father's Day! — Mohith Agadi
Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.
— Peter Abrahams
To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered.
— Peter Abrahams