Nadine Gordimer Quotes
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
Gordimer, Nadine. Burger's Daughter. Viking Press, 1979, p. 320.
Blacks in America are generally more religious than whites and almost all religious Blacks are Christian. As such, they tend to be very forgiving, non-violent, and more tolerant of sin and wrong than whites are. Foreman and others believe if Blacks had not been so Christianized, they would have been more rebellious, more violent and more vengeful than there were and are. This may well have been better for them in terms of American History and in getting more of the “pie” of contemporary society.”
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".
