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Mongane Wally Serote
15 quotes
“It is that wind it is that voice buzzing it is whispering and whistling in the wires miles upon miles upon miles on the wires in the wind in the subway track in the rolling road in the not silent bush it is the voice of the noise here it comes the Third World Express they must say, here we go again.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Serote, 1992:35.
“O, go away, you steely monster! Why must you arrive so soon When I, at the moment, am lost in thought And wish that I could hide myself At home among the mielie-stalks, Covered with cobs, surrounded by pumpkins; For there I should never be disturbed By bustling crowds of chattering people Passing noisily on their way: I see them at dawn, I see them at dusk – At sunrise and sunset they pass me by.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vilakazi, 2008:7-9.
“You can't be an observer just because you are a poet. You must also contribute to the fighting.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing, which is a segment of culture which is life itself, cannot be divorced from economics or politics.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first commitment of any writer is to politics; the second, which makes the writer, is in writing.”
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“It becomes the role of the writer to look at the under-developed sections of our movement and deal with them truthfully. And look at the highly developed elements of our movement and also deal with them truthfully.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It becomes necessary as a writer to examine this, and be able to look at our movement and say: are we learning from the experiences of others?”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was inspired by English poetry, but then I discovered that I could write about our own situation and that's what I set out to do: to write about South Africa and to write about the life that we live.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At primary school, I had very good teachers that had us tell stories.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What's in this black shit expresses that deep feeling of wanting to fight and trying to articulate what one does when one fights.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Serote explained the origin of his famous poem "What's in This Black 'Shit'" during a 1989 interview. He said the poem grew out of witnessing the daily humiliations of apartheid, including pass laws and the treatment of…
“One had this very strong feeling that one had to fight this one way or another.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The quality of life of the people—the way people lived—affected me.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing is a segment of culture which is life itself.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is how societies are organized that says how they will eradicate ignorance.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am primarily known as a poet. I have, though, written short stories, a novel, and plays and am preparing a manuscript of essays on culture.”
Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source