Peter Abrahams Zitate

For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight 'all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad' attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had to go or be forever lost.

Peter Abrahams

Deutsche Übersetzung

Für mich persönlich war das Leben in Südafrika zu Ende. Ich hatte Glück in einigen der Weißen, die ich getroffen hatte. Die Begegnung mit ihnen hatte eine geradezu "Schwarze-sind-Gut-Alles-Weiß-Sind-Schlecht" -Einstellung unmöglich gemacht. Aber ich war an einem Punkt angelangt, an dem sogar die Gesten meiner Freunde unter den Weißen verdächtig waren, also musste ich gehen oder für immer verloren sein.

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