Antjie Krog

right|thumb|Krog in 2019 Antjie Krog (born 23 October 1952) is a South African poet, academic, and writer. In 2004, she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape. Quotes I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences. And everyone wants to know: Who? Why? The victims ask the hardest of all the questions: How is it possible that the person I loved so much lit no spark of humanity in you? By not dealing with past human rights violations, we are not simply protecting the perpetrators' trivial old age ; we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt. I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences. Best Antjie Krog Quotes (of All Time) http://https://www.pepquotes.com/antjie-krog-quotes Pepquotes External links Category:Poets from South Africa Category:Women academics from South Africa Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:Women authors from South Africa Category:Women born in the 1950s