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Quote by Can Themba
We were those sensitive might-have-beens who had knocked on the door of white civilisation.
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The speaker describes people who felt their possibilities had not been fulfilled. “Knocked on the door” suggests they sought entry, recognition, or acceptance into a society the quote calls “white civilisation.” The wording presents them as sensitive outsiders who came close to belonging but remained excluded from that world.
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- University of Cape Town doctoral thesis (quoting The World of Can Themba)
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