Zoë Wicomb Quotes

Zoë Wicomb is a South African-Scottish author and academic who has lived in the UK since the 1970s. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for her fiction. Wikipedia

✵ 23. November 1948

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Zoë Wicomb Quotes

“If the whiteness they pursue is cool and haughty and blank,
history is uncool, reaches out gawkily for affinities, asserts itself boldly,
threatens to mark, to break through and stain the primed white canvas
that is their life.
For, having primed it, they do not know where to start,
how to make a mark. They are alone in the world, a small new
island of whiteness. Or so they think; they do not know, or perhaps
they do not want to know, that the neighbourhood is full of people
like them. Thus they are steeped in its silence.”

Zoë Wicomb

Playing in the Light (2006)

Life , People , World , History

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