Nadine Gordimer Quotes

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. Nadine Gordimer

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. Nadine Gordimer

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand. Nadine Gordimer

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. Nadine Gordimer

The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is. Nadine Gordimer

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Nadine Gordimer

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. Nadine Gordimer

A desert is a place without expectation. Nadine Gordimer