My handwriting had never looked so beautiful. I had at last decided to free myself of the shackles which had bound not only my hands, but also my sou… - Miriam Tlali

These damnable laws which dictate to you where, and next to whom, you shall walk, sit, stand and lie... This whole abominable nauseating business of toilets and "separate but equal facilities"... What is one to do anyway? One is forever in a trap from which there is no escape... except suicide...

Don't call me Nanny, your Nanny is looking after your kids at your house.

And I thought to myself, to think that my poor little niece is not even aware that she is so important. That her innocent request to pay me a visit can be regarded as a threat to the security of the great Republic of South Africa.