If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Alan PatonI envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
Alan PatonBut the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Alan PatonAnd were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
Alan Paton