Zoë Wicomb > Quotes

“Aesthetics, he said, should be left to the so-called artists, to the writers and readers of fiction. There is no need to fret about writing, about our choice of words in the New South Africa; rather, we will have to make do with mixtures of meaning, will have to rely on typographic devices like the slash for many more years, he predicted.”
― Zoë Wicomb, David's Story

“Like picnics—only when you’re sure of a good roof over your head would you even think of eating out of doors, of making a song and dance about eating under a tree.”
― Zoë Wicomb, David's Story

“It’s ridiculous going around looking for Griqua history and traditions when you know that they’re just ordinary coloured people like everyone else, just ordinary gullible people who fell for the nonsense of that madman Le Fleur. Ugh, Sally snorts, the things that pass”
― Zoë Wicomb, David's Story

“If freedom is about looking awful then I leave it to your revolutionaries like Comrade Dulcie. I’ll have none of it and I’ll have none of your lies. Liberate yourself and face up to being a Tupperware boy, light, multipurpose, adaptable. We’re brand new Tupperware people and should thank God for that.”
― Zoë Wicomb, David's Story

“We don’t know what we are; the point is that in a place where everything gets distorted, no one knows who he”
― Zoë Wicomb, David's Story