Beverley Naidoo > Quotes

“On one side he drew a house and on the other side a long road. Then he drew two boys looking at each other, one on each side of the gate. Their eyes were large and sad. Under the boy by the house he wrote SIPHO and under the other he wrote JABU.”
― Beverley Naidoo, No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa

“lunch break at Oranje Primary School. Inside the grand double-storied, orange-brick building with its neat rows of sparkling windows, children had classes both morning and afternoon. Not like in her school. Her school in the township had so many pupils they had to take turns to use the classrooms! When she and her classmates finished lessons at twelve, the afternoon children were just arriving.”
― Beverley Naidoo, Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope