With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
Source: Tell Freedom, 1954.
-- Peter Abrahams, (Mar 19 1919-2017), South African novelist; His early novel Mine Boy (1946) was the first to emphasize the dehumanizing effect of racism upon South African blacks.