Peter Abrahams

Quotes

• “A strange group of people, these, he thought. Nothing tied them down. They seem to believe in nothing. But well, they had given him a bed. She had given it to him. She who was the strangest of them all.”
• “An unbelievable thing happened. The second colored man knocked the first one down and ran down the street waving to Xuma.”
• “Hoopvlei was another of the white man's ventures to get the natives and coloreds out of the towns. The natives did not like the locations, and besides, they were all full, so the white man had started townships in the outlying district of Johannesburg in the hope of killing Vrededorp and Malay Camp. Many other places had been killed thus.”
• “He did not want to go there for fear he should meet Eliza. And she was like a devil in his blood. He could not forget her.”
• “I am no good and I cannot help myself. It will be right if you hate me. You should beat me. But inside me there is something wrong. And it is because I want the things of the white people. I want to be like the white people and go where they go and do the things they do and I am black. I cannot help it. Inside I am not black and I do not want to be a black person.”
• “I pushed my nose and lip...I was inside the raindrop away from the misery of the cold damp room. I was in a place of warmth and sunshine, inside my raindrop world.”

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Key facts

Born

Peter Henry Abrahams Deras , ( 1919-03-03 ) 3 March 1919, Vrededorp , Transvaal , Union of South Africa

Died

18 January 2017 (2017-01-18) (aged 97), Saint Andrew Parish , Jamaica

Occupation

Novelist, journalist, political commentator

Nationality

South African and Jamaican

Notable works

Mine Boy (1946) , Tell Freedom (1954) , A Wreath for Udomo (1956)

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