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1 " Ouma Nella’s quotes p 144 -146“Man, if you don’t know where you going, any road will bring you there.” “It don’t matter how far a river run. It never forget where it come from. That is all that is important.”“No matter if it’s wet or dry,” she grunt. “As long as you keep a green branch in your heart, there will always be a bird that come to sing in it.”“It’s no use crying in the rain, my child, because no one will see your tears.“Don't think you can climb two trees at the same time just because you got two legs.”“Ouma Nella, where am I not?”“But you’re right here with me, Philida. So there’s many places where you’re not.”“Tell me where those places are. I got to know. So I can go and look for myself. "
― André Brink , Philida
2 " The most I can do is to go as far as I can, writing my own story in the dust with my two feet, word for word. "
3 " One can see plainly that there is thunder brooding in his head, but he refuses to speak to them. "
4 " it’s a white man’s farm, and we are only the hands that work here, the feet that tread the grapes in the big vat, or churn up dust on the wide yard around the longhouse, we are the backs that bend until they feel like breaking, we are the necks that get throttled, the stomachs that get hollow from hunger, and mine are the hands that keep on knitting and knitting and honest-to-God never stop knitting, "
5 " No matter if it's wet or dry, she grunts. As long as you keep a green branch in your heart, there will always be a bird that come to sing in it. "
