"Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish."

--

Source : Margaret Laurence, George Woodcock (1983). “A Place to stand on: essays by and about Margaret Laurence”

Margaret Laurence

#Believe Quotes #I Believe Quotes

“Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.”
“The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.”
“Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is the worst.”
“Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.”
“It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.”
“After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.”

Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com
“Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.”
“Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to kill each other. They become so-called 'tribalism' when they are politicized in a particular framework. And in post-independence Africa they have been politicized largely by sections of the so-called African elite.”

You may also like: