People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. - Bessie Head

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I think the problem with growing up and idealizing self-destructive artists is that you only see the beauty they created rather than all the pain that went along with it.

Bessie Head

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

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Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here.

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The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. . . . perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.

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