Bessie Head Quotes

#1. A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

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#2. People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

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#3. I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

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#4. Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

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#5. I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

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#6. Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

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#7. I write because I have authority from life to do so.

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#8. It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.

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