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“The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.”

Passion Poverty Career Zimbabwe Economic Hardship

Book:Sweet Medicine

Source: Sweet Medicine

“Tsitsi and the rest of the nation who now found themselves degreed and broke, her parents and the parents of the nation with degreed children and still broke, had thought-convinced themselves-that the poverty of their lives could be eliminated by 'professionalisation'.”

Education Poverty Sweet Medicine Economic Hardship Self Comfort

Book:Sweet Medicine

Source: Sweet Medicine

“Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true”

Effort Poverty Survival Hardwork Zimbabwe Economic Hardship

Book:Sweet Medicine

Source: Sweet Medicine

“Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and leading them to drink,to beating or the noose. Was this it?”

Life Poverty Desperation Hopelessness Helplessness

Book:Sweet Medicine

Source: Sweet Medicine

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