Athol Fugard Quotes About Apartheid

• 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

  Believe, Writing, Issues

• Toda mi vida había transcurrido a la sombra del apartheid. Y cuando Sudáfrica experimentó su extraordinario cambio en 1994, fue como haber pasado toda una vida en un ring de boxeo con un adversario y, de repente, encontrarte en ese ring de boxeo con nadie más y darte cuenta de que tienes que quitarte los guantes, salir y reinventarte.

  Athol Fugard

  Boxing, Finding Yourself, Shadow

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

• I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

  Athol Fugard

  Writing, Thinking, White

• 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 have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

  Athol Fugard

  Artist, Years, Democracy

  "Playwright Fugard Bucked South Africa's 'Racist Ideas'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 1, 2012.

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