Quotes by South African Authors - Page 19

Never judge the deeds of a starving man while you’re on a full tummy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Eating healthy is expensive. Not eating healthy is expensive. One dents your pocket. The other dents your health.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Air freshener is man’s pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I could smell the food fill up my hunger before the order was even placed.
Phindiwe Nkosi
Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I used to think that size does not count, until I realized that most people either find other people’s faeces more disgusting than a bird’s droppings, or they do not find the latter disgusting at all.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.
Yvette Christiansë
It felt great to be loved. Children... Children are a hazard to your life... As they'd got older they had become more expensive. But it was worth it. If she didn't have her children her life would be empty. And even though your children leave your nest, they always have one foot tethered to you.
Cindy Vine
Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitment.
Cindy Vine
If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.
Desmond Tutu
One day you’re going to get arrested, and when you do, don’t call me. I’ll tell the police to lock you up just to teach you a lesson.” Because there were some black parents who’d actually do that, not pay their kid’s bail, not hire their kid a lawyer—the ultimate tough love. But it doesn’t always work, because you’re giving the kid tough love when maybe he just needs love. You’re trying to teach him a lesson, and now that lesson is the rest of his life.
Trevor Noah
To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A straight face is an ignorant man’s attempt to appear knowledgeable.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
How much man likes or hates a person or a thing is dependent on how much he knows or does not know about the person or the thing.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.
Masha du Toit
You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The signs are just not subtle enough to pass onto oversight in lieu of self preservation.
Daleen Van Tonder
When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.
Unarine Ramaru
I guess we’re all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.
Danielle Esplin
Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.
Christina Engela
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
Honesty defines self respect.
Unarine Ramaru
Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
Anthon St. Maarten
I resent being lied to because a lie doesn't only undermine the value of the truth, but it further denies the liar a fair chance for honesty.
Gugu Mona
Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To achieve greatness it simply starts with self-belief.
Unarine Ramaru
I don't believe in dreams that don't evolve, if your potential develops all the time, how is it possible that your dreams stay the same.
Unarine Ramaru
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, “Where are your wounds?” and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, “Was there nothing to fight for?” I couldn’t face that question.
Alan Paton
Even the blind man can see the beauty as it rides upon the sound of a voice, edge itself between the lines on his fingerprints to be spread upon the smooth snippets of life he touches.
Adri Sinclair
Religion is more beautiful when it brings out the goodness in a person.
Gugu Mona
Love is beautiful, yet the worst of crimes are committed in the name of love. So when someone claims to love you, you should question their intent.
Gugu Mona
Some kids are black, or brown - some kids are red, and others white.Kids come in all different colors, shapes and styles - beautiful and bright!
Christina Engela
Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.
Tarryn Fisher
We are wired to be caring for the other and generous to one another. We shrivel when we are not able to interact. I mean that is part of the reason why solitary confinement is such a horrendous punishment. We depend on the other in order for us to be fully who we are. (...) The concept of Ubuntu says: A person is a person through other persons.
Desmond Tutu
While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking statements is this: omelets do not come from chickens – it is eggs which come from chickens. Omelets on the other hand, are an entirely Human invention. Humans being here, the ‘middle man’ as it were.
Christina Engela
Once you change the way you see the world, you can never go back to not seeing it that way.
Leila Summers
Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?
J.M. Coetzee
But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.
Dalene Matthee
Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others.
Anthon St. Maarten
Morality doesn’t exist in space, only in the spaces between people.
Alex Latimer
The moment you hand over YOUR responsibility to manage your own rights, morality, and freedoms - to the government, that is the moment democracy fails.
Christina Engela
It is quite ironic that those calling the loudest for 'morality' are typically the most immoral of all.
Christina Engela
I am not used to hating. Hate sits heavy on my heart. It reeks. I can smell it rotting my insides and I taste it on my tongue.
Kopano Matlwa
Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!
Phindiwe Nkosi
Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hate is no respecter of race - as apparently neither is stupidity.
Christina Engela
I fail to see how somebody can hate me for 'what I do' and what I am without actually hating me as a person. That makes about as much sense as throwing the baby out with the bathwater - or gay man out the church door with his homosexuality.
Christina Engela
Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minority groups. Labeling the advocacy, educational and informational initiatives of these persecuted minority groups dismissively as 'propaganda for the gay agenda' undermines, belittles and trivializes the cause of those whose right to exist is under threat.
Christina Engela
If you hate others in the name of God, you should be looking within to see where it stopped being about God and where it started being about YOU.
Christina Engela
The simple truth of the matter is that people who complain about a peaceful parade which lasts at best one hour in a particular place - ONCE in a whole year - do so out of hatred and intolerance. it isn't just the parade, it is seeing gay and trans people in public - and gay and trans people BEING gay and trans in public. And that is the root of the problem - they HATE gay and trans people.
Christina Engela
You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.
Trevor Noah