My chubby little brother! Perhaps he’s having a little ‘crisis of conscience’!’ perhaps, because of their culture. - Lewis Nkosi

Why believe the word of the girl against mine,... Except for the whiteness of her skin, a color that has caused more trouble and unhappiness in the world than the color of any other skin, what particular claim to virtue can this girl be supposed to have?

Bulane was dressed in faded old khakis, somewhat soiled and torn and sprinkled with mud, and although this was the height of summer on the highveld and the sun would soon be scorchingly hot, he was swathed in a thick army coat that looked frayed and moth-eaten, like something which might have been bequeathed to an importunate servant by a jokey employer.

...as I was to later find out, the skin was neither soft nor the hair so smooth as I had first imagined.