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Quote by NoViolet Bulawayo

“Now when the men talk, their voices burn in the air, making smoke all over the place. We hear about change, about new country, about democracy, about elections and what-what. They talk and talk, the men, lick their lips and look at the dead watches on their wrists and shake their heads and slap each other and laugh like they have swallowed thunder.”

Author

NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo, born on December 10, 1981, is a prominent author from Zimbabwe. Her works are set against the backdrop of Zimbabwe's social reality, profoundly addressing issues such as poverty, racial discrimination, and the plight of children. more

“The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and vulnerable; their doors are flimsy pieces of plyboard or sacks hanging and lank. Children and chickens and dogs scratch in the red, raw soil and stare at us as we drive through their open, eroding lives.”

Children War Africa Zimbabwe Descriptive Rhodesia

Book:Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Source: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

“We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect.”

Love Heart Perfect Broken Heartbreak Break Up Ex Tryst

Book:Tryst

Source: Tryst

“Maybe we should Create a 'Happy God Day' and make it the one day of the year you can't kill each other.”

Religion

Author:Stanley Victor Paskavich

“When he came back, I hid my face within my hands. He said: "Fear nothing. Who has seen our kiss? --Who saw us? The night and the moon." "And the stars and the first flush of dawn. The moon has seen its visage in the lake, and told it to the water 'neath the willows. The water told it to the rower's oar. "And the oar has told it to the boat, and the boat has passed the secret to the fisher. Alas! alas! if that were only all! But the fisher told the secret to a woman. "The fisher told the secret to a woman: my father and my mother and my sisters, and all of Hellas now shall know the tale.”