I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
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I would like to believe that you reunite with the people you love the most.
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View all 53 →When my kids ask, “What happens when we die?” I say, “Do you remember the place you were in before you were born? I think we go back there.”
You reach a certain point in life and suddenly know a lot of dead people, and I’ve noticed you don’t stop getting to know people who are dead. Those relationships continue and I like that.
Earthly life is merely the infancy of our soul. What comes after physical death is, I imagine, like returning home.
More from Johannes Radebe
View profile →In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
As someone who cared boldly about people, stood firmly for what he believed in and lifted others when they needed help.
Building my mum her dream home.
I almost pulled out of my first solo tour because of impostor syndrome.
When my trousers split on stage in Burn the Floor in Australia. I had always been warned to wear my flesh underwear and I did not that day.
Driven, authentic, resilient.
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