Cecil John Rhodes Quotes

To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

Of course, every time you have sex, it will not be identical: moods, spaces, times, touches, intentions all drift and mingle, forming new pathways, reflecting and drawing from past journeys, and ending somewhere that may look similar. But isn’t.

among his very few belongings I found a small, green leather-bound booklet given “to Timothy Donald Fuller with the Compliments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a memento on becoming a citizen of Rhodesia at Umtali on 17th October, 1974.” Inside the pamphlet were a few of the sorts of things meant to inspire Rhodesian citizens onward and upward to greater things. A statue of Cecil John Rhodes, looking gouty; that was page 1.

There are others too. You just can’t run away from Cecil John Rhodes. Not even impepho works for this fucker. It’s hard. We come back home to him, sit in all our classes with him, witness his vices reincarnate in the powers that bring us to still-Grahamstown for our degree. We are there when the protests erupt. Not front and centre, but there. So is he. And when the protests die down he is stronger, a demon that terrorises even in our sleep. Rhodes and a system that molests and cons us into believing we are helpless, that we cannot overcome. But we also try to remember that in protests there is revelation, an exposure of truth, a coming out.

one man who could probably be credited with getting these groups up and running is named Cecil John Rhodes, an alleged 33rd degree