Bessie Head Quote

Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here...

A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979 (ed. Heinemann, 1991)