All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spe…

- Athol Fugard

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his lif…

- Athol Fugard

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really …

- Athol Fugard

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

- Athol Fugard

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man.…

- Athol Fugard

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as…

- Athol Fugard

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone …

- Athol Fugard

I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, o…

- Athol Fugard

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

- Athol Fugard