"Disgrace" Quotes

What he dislikes is merely the imposition of Western ideas about sex and family on Africans who have a different way of doing things.

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is.

No answers under the microscope, no shining light in the darkness, no pulpit from which to urge the congregants forward. Just the damp grass and the pain and the misery.

Age, he thought, is a journey into boundarylessness, but the nearer he came to this boundarylessness the more persistently bounded he felt himself to be.

You must learn to tolerate it, he thinks. You must learn to be tolerant.

With age come the inward chambers of speculation, the backward gaze, the measure of mortality.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

He used to think he had a monopoly on despair.

There seems nothing for it but to accept what has occurred and continue with one's life. Or is it?

History here is a gloss, an omission, a lie. Their association with the land reaches back millennia, but they are just passers-through.