Paul Theroux Quote

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.


Tarzan Is an Expatriate, quoted in Patrick Marnham's Dispatches from Africa, ch. 1 (1981).


The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it,...

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it,...

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it,...

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it,...