“Bullshit, as usual” SchoolTheatreSouth AfricaApartheid Book:Master Harold...and the Boys Source: Master Harold...and the Boys
“I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.” ThinkingWritingYearsMy OwnWhiteDealsGuiltTrainSouthDriversSouth AfricaBlindnessWriting LifeApartheid Author:Athol Fugard
“My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.” YearsArtistDemocracyFunctionDefinedErasApartheid Author:Athol Fugard
“For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.” WritingBelieveDifferentFactsActionFormFeltSituationIssuesSouthSignificantDesperateSouth AfricaWriting LifeApartheidUneasy Author:Athol Fugard
“All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.” FindingsShadowLifetimeSouthExtraordinaryRingsOpponentsBoxingFinding YourselfRealisingSouth AfricaGlovesApartheidReinventingReinventing YourselfBoxing GlovesBoxing Ring Author:Athol Fugard
