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Miriam Tlali
8 quotes
“Botswana. It is not called Bechuanaland any more now.”
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can't stand those voices! Those baboons there, sitting there talking.”
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was no use trying to speak to him. The long painful years of contact with the whites had developed within him a hard protective core of indifference to all their constant abusive reprimands. He was dead inside, I thought.”
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't call me Nanny, your Nanny is looking after your kids at your house.”
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 "foreign native", a Rhodesian. He has to remain tied to Mr Block for the rest of his life like a slave; he has been sold to him and may not leave him for another master. At least I'm free.”
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I thought to myself, to think that my poor little niece is not even aware that she is so important. That her innocent request to pay me a visit can be regarded as a threat to the security of the great Republic of South Africa.”
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These damnable laws which dictate to you where, and next to whom, you shall walk, sit, stand and lie... This whole abominable nauseating business of toilets and "separate but equal facilities"... What is one to do anyway? One is forever in a trap from which there is no escape... except suicide...”
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My handwriting had never looked so beautiful. I had at last decided to free myself of the shackles which had bound not only my hands, but also my soul.”
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source