These damnable laws which dictate to you where, and next to… - Miriam Tlali

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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...

Miriam Tlali

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Miriam Tlali (11 November 1933 – 24 February 2017) was a South African novelist. She was the first black woman in South Africa to publish an English-language novel, Muriel at Metropolitan.

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Alternative Names: Tlali • Miriam Masoli Tlali

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