Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Power of One.
Isolation Quotes
Deep inside me the loneliness bird laid a large stone egg. (3.156)
Revenge Quotes
"Shhhh. I will avenge you, this I promise. Don't cry, champ, don't cry, little boetie." (14.52)
Principles Quotes
"First with the head and then with the heart, that's how a man stays ahead from the start." (7.3)
Race Quotes
Before my life started properly, I was doing the usual mewling and sucking, which in my case occurred on a pair of huge, soft black breasts. (1.2)
Dreams, Hopes, and Plans Quotes
"That's why you're going to be the next champ, Peekay, you've got the reason." (5.18)
Society and Class Quotes
"I'm not the next welterweight contender, Mr. Groenewald, I'm just a verdomde rooinek," I said [. . .] "That's why you're going to be the next champ, Peekay, you've got the reason." (5.18)
Religion Quotes
"God will punish you for this! 'He who plucks one hair from the head of a child of mine, it is as though he doeth this to me, thus sayeth the Lord.'" Pik Botha was shaking his finger at Big Hettie...
Coming of Age Quotes
All children are flotsam driven by the ebb and flow of adult lives. (3.160)