[30 Years of Mandela and His Prison Poems]

Tracey 2022-04-19 09:01:48

- "Thank you for everything you have done for the country" "No sir, thank you for everything you have done for the country" - "I have a big family, forty-two million"

"He's not a saint, he's just a mortal, and he also has emotions and desires. They've been separated for a long time, don't mention his family"...

Poem from Prison: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeoning of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears, Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate , How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

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  • Nerine: [after Francois returns from his tea with President Mandela] So, what's he like?

    Francois Pienaar: [pauses] He's unlike any person I've ever met.

  • Hendrick Booyens: [after meeting Francois Pienaar for the first time] He's not as big as he looks on TV.