And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.