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Jul152013

Wilbur Smith

The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

He made no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.

I was sitting in the Temple of Karnak on the Nile, as the sun was going down, and I was all alone, and the great Hypostyle Hall was full of shadows and ghosts of the past, and suddenly I heard this little voice saying "my name is Taita, write my story"… and if you believe that you'll believe anything."

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.



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