Lewis Nkosi
Lewis Nkosi (1936-2010) was a South African writer, playwright, editor and critic. He was exiled from South Africa to London.Wisdom & Quotes
- After all, if it comes to all that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our own consciousness.
- I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behaviour and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.
- Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerlessness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.
- All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.
- Every writer has a vision. Otherwise, I do not see what he is doing writing.
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