A sport of Nature
A sport of Nature (1987) by Nadine Gordimer is a 1987 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. While still a secondary school student, Kim Capran decides to rename herself "Hillela".Hillela joins the ANC, she marries a black man from the congress and has a child with him.[2][3] She travels to Dar es Salaam and Nairobi before returning to South Africa in the final pages as the wife of a fictitious President of Kenya..
Quotes
[edit]- Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is..
- Nadine Gordimer
- People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
- Nadine Gordimer
- The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable..
- Nadine Gordimer
- The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
- Nadine Gordimer
- Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
- Nadine Gordimer
- Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
- Nadine Gordimer
- Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
- Nadine Gordimer
