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“This is our climate. We have grown up in this air, this light, and we grasp it on our skin, where it grasps us. We know this earth, this grass, this polished red stone with the soles of our feet. We will never be ourselves anywhere else. Happier, perhaps, healthier, less burdened, more secure. But we will never be closer to who we are than this.” Home Book:Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked Source: Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
“Yet all the fun we had riding bicycles and kicking soccer balls counted for nothing because they were in here working, wearing paper hats and striped aprons as if they were in an Archie comic. They were already kids and we were still children.” ChildhoodDevlopment Book:Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked Source: Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked