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What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn’t really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.  (Athol Fugard Quotes) The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with ‘Blood Knot,’ which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.  (Athol Fugard Quotes) With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts.  (Athol Fugard Quotes) Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.  (Athol Fugard Quotes) 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  (Athol Fugard Quotes) From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me  (Athol Fugard Quotes) I’m always in disguise in one form or another in my plays  (Athol Fugard Quotes) 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  (Athol Fugard Quotes) My essential identity is that of a writer  (Athol Fugard Quotes) In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life  (Athol Fugard Quotes) I think the aloe is one of South Africa’s most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried  (Athol Fugard Quotes) 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  (Athol Fugard Quotes) 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  (Athol Fugard Quotes) 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  (Athol Fugard Quotes) Life is just a plain bloody mess, that’s all. And people are fools  (Athol Fugard Quotes) I’ve always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time  (Athol Fugard Quotes) We compound our suffering by victimizing each other  (Athol Fugard Quotes) Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way  (Athol Fugard Quotes) The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery  (Athol Fugard Quotes) 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 really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore  (Athol Fugard Quotes) Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground  (Athol Fugard Quotes) There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism  (Athol Fugard Quotes) If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man’s skin, then the racists have been right all along  (Athol Fugard Quotes) You can’t answer violence with counter violence... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love  (Athol Fugard Quotes) As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people’s mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre  (Athol Fugard Quotes)