A Change of Tongue Quotes

“Something else may be missing here,’ says Thabo. ‘Before 1990, we all had distorted images of each other. Whites are like this and blacks are like that. From 1990 to 1994, we realized with growing astonishment how many things we actually do have in common. How much is shared between Afrikaner and African. How little Ubuntu Communism and Boere Socialism differ from one another, how much of an old-fashioned Christian ethic underscores all our comings and goings. That is why the elections were such a success. Because of what bound us together and what future we envisioned.’ ‘And what was that?’ ‘I would say: in spite of our different colours and languages and incomes, we accepted that we are actually of each other, we care for one another, we will stand in queues together and vote, because we grant each other a future in this country.”
― Antjie Krog, A Change of Tongue