African Emigrants Magazine. November. 2020. Issue 2

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ALEXANDER
MCCALL SMITH
Writer
“I am just a tiny person in Africa, but
there is a place for me, and for
everybody, to sit down on this earth and
touch it and call it their own.”
“Do not act meanly, do not be unkind,
because the time for setting things right
may pass before your heart changes
course.Isabel Dalhousie”
“You can go through life and make new
friends every year - every month
practically - but there was never any
substitute for those friendships of
childhood that survive into adult years.
Those are the ones in which we are
bound to one another with hoops of
steel.”
“Be content with who you are and where
you are, and do whatever you can do to
bring to others such contentment, and
joy, and understanding that you have
managed to find yourself.”
“Gracious acceptance is an art - an art
which most never bother to cultivate.
We think that we have to learn how to
give, but we forget about accepting
things, which can be much harder than
giving.... Accepting another person's gift
is allowing him to express his feelings
for you.”
Migrated from Zimbabwe to
the UK at age 17