Loot and Other Stories Quotes

“It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.”
― Nadine Gordimer, Loot and Other Stories

“If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.”
― Nadine Gordimer, Loot and Other Stories