"When I came to Johannesburg from the..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.
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“Fools multiply when wise men are silent.”
“Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.”
“One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.”
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“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.”
“So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.”
“Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.”
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“I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.”
“In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.”
“I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?”