“This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later.” LanguageRaceEducationColonialismAfricaZimbabweDialectAfrican LanguagesWhite WashMiseducationShonaLocal Languages Book:The Book of Memory Source: The Book of Memory
“You can't save someone from their own decisions.” EstherCroxallShonaTethers Book:Tethers Source: Tethers
“I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don’t call me lucky. Call me a badas.” Shonda RhimesShonaYear Of Yes Book:Year of Yes Source: Year of Yes