Ferial Quotes & Sayings

Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome. — Richard Ford

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets — G.H. Hardy

Take your racism and jump in the Tugela! — Ferial Haffajee

Satire is what closes on Saturday night. — George S. Kaufman

You are part of the fabric of your personal and professional community, country, and world. When you actualize your potentials in your own unique way, our world actualizes its potential, too. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. — Stephen King

Every dish in the ferial cuisine, however, provides a double or treble delight: Not only is the body nourished and the palate pleased, the mind is intrigued by the triumph of ingenuity over scarcity - by the making of slight materials into a considerable matter. A man can do worse than to be poor. He can miss altogether the sight of the greatness of small things. — Robert Farrar Capon

The idea of black poverty is always presented as the outcome of white wealth, but what South Africa has is a poverty problem, not necessarily a black poverty problem because it is a largely black country. — Ferial Haffajee

When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today. — Ferial Haffajee

I would like", she resumed, "to see the world more innocently again, more impersonally, but I have no idea how to achieve this, other than by going somewhere completely unknown where I have no identity and no associations. — Rachel Cusk