Phrase by 'Athol Fugard'

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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.

Author: Athol Fugard - South African Playwright
  Life , Yourself , Change , Shadow


For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Author: Athol Fugard - South African Playwright
  You , Man , Men , Soul


How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

Author: Athol Fugard - South African Playwright
  Me , White , Sea , Dark


Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

Author: Athol Fugard - South African Playwright
  Family , Day , Think , Alone


Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

Author: Athol Fugard - South African Playwright
  Done , Courage , White , Forgiveness


I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.

Author: Athol Fugard - South African Playwright
  Life , Me , My Own , Street


Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

Author: Athol Fugard - South African Playwright
  Proud , Boy , Talk , Role Model


A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

Author: Athol Fugard - South African Playwright
  You , Me , Age , Friend


The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

Author: Athol Fugard - South African Playwright
  You , Me , Know , Truth


Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

Author: Athol Fugard - South African Playwright
  Never , Work , Society , Way


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