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Category: Peter Abrahams

You can’t walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Culture, Alone, Man

The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the ‘thinking men’ but among my simple ‘backward’ people.

Man, Simple, Humanity

For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight ‘all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad’ attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had to go or be forever lost.

Life, Friends, Me

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

family, love, mothers

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

family, love, mothers