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"Being liked is not nearly as great as being happy with the decisions I make. Im not money, so I know not everyone likes me"
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Mohale MashigoI write for myself and then I edit for the reader, to make things easi — Mohale Mashigo
"I write for myself and then I edit for the reader, to make things easier for them, to refine the ideas"
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Mohale Mashigo
Mohale Mashigo
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Mohale Mashigo, born Kgomotso Carol Mashigo is a South African singer-songwriter, novelist, and former radio presenter. Her debut novel The Yearning won the 2017 University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Debut Writing and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018. She lives in Cape Town.
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"I try as a reader to put myself in places I’ve never been to, in the shoes of people I would never meet"
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"Things that lurk in the shadows do not like the light. People get used to one tiny light and begin to seek out more of it in the world and in themselves – that’s how the light liberates us."
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"It seems as if the whole country is falling apart, so why be a good person, why be good to yourself, when the country is not being good to you, it’s not giving you the opportunities you need"
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"It’s always the youth that are making the sacrifices. When I think about the Soweto riots in 1976 in South Africa, it wasn’t people that stopped working and said, we are going to fight against these policies, it was the school children"
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"It’s fantasy when white people write it. When black and brown people write it, it’s magic realism"
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