“I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.” FirstsWellsSchoolAmericaMomOne DaySummerSouthMy MomGradesStayingVacationSouth AfricaComing BackNorth AmericaSlippingSummer Vacation Author:Kandyse McClure
“There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.” ChildrenLastsNightSpeakFantasyForeverOne DaySouthForestsHillsHuntsHollowDeep WithinShangri Author:George R. R. Martin
“I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.” ThinkingYearsWarHandsMotherStudentsOne DayMy FamilyTrainSouthConvincedGrandmotherStationsChicagoBusMy GrandmotherFundraiserRaising Money Author:Diane Nash
“When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.” KnowsYearsKindSaidSchoolSongMy OwnTalkingDadOne DayHigh SchoolSouthMusicalMy DadBusRidingRollingGenealogy Author:Rosanne Cash
“I was born in the south of France, I moved to Paris 30 years ago. I was running nightclubs and restaurants, so that was my business - working until six o'clock every morning, and then one day I noticed my wife. We opened the gallery together. She got pregnant, she was 22, I was 35, and it was time for me to change my life, and I decided to wake up early - wake up at the time I used to sleep.” YearsRunningTogetherUsedBornSleepMorningWifeOne DaySixYears AgoDecidedWake UpMovedSouthMy WifeFranceClockParisRestaurantsPregnantEvery MorningGalleryUp EarlyChanging My LifeNightclubs Author:Patrick Seguin
“He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).” MindLongWholeStoriesLostLanguageOne DaySouthHearingSentencesConvincedMediumsCodeSettlingSouth AfricaMudDisgraceMoldDinosaursArticulationSettling In Book:Disgrace Source: Disgrace