Quotes About Afrikaans

#1. Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison in anticipation that it would help him lead the whole of South Africa.

Robert Lane Greene

#2. If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

Adhir Kalyan

#3. Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

Tanit Phoenix

#4. My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

Zakes Mda

#5. Most of the black women who lived in the lower end of Vrededorp came from the countryside and were there to be near their menfolk who worked in the mines. They spoke neither English nor Afrikaans.

Peter Abrahams

#6. It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.

Antjie Krog

#7. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

Piero Scaruffi

#8. In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.

Tim Sample

#9. I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round ...

Susan Hale

#10. We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

John C. Maxwell

#11. The truth does 2 things: either hurts or sets you free. It's up to you to decide which one!

Yushekia Mason

#12. The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#13. I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.

Michael Botticelli

#14. All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

Norman MacCaig

#15. You are the only girl worth pursuing. And that's why no one pursues you. -Danny

Wendy Wunder

#16. Information technology alone cannot provide us an absolute shield against its evil twin disinformation technology. Our only protection is law, and that protection is available to us only if legitimate governments have the power to govern.

Paul Starr

#17. I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.

Bill Gurley