I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.

Nadine Gordimer
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  1. Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword - Oscar Wilde

  2. No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. - Veronica Roth

  3. The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

  4. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore

  5. When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? - Anthony Doerr

More Quotes By Nadine Gordimer
  1. The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  2. Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

  3. What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling...

  4. Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

  5. Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

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