Peter Abrahams

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#love #mothers #family

Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#marie-antoinette #humor

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#go #like #only #want #where

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#culture #each #given #his #history

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#carried #changed #dream #lost #magic

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#black #come #his #joseph #kings

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. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#born #consciousness #desired #desires #dreams