Top 22 Imbolo Mbue Quotes
#1. Ah, Neni!" Jende said, laughing. "American women do not use love potions."
"Thats what you think?" Neni said, laughing, yoo. "They use it, oh. They call it lingerie.
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#2. People in this country, always worrying about how to eat, they pay someone good money to tell them: Eat this, don't eat that. If you don't know how to eat, what else can you know how to do in this world?
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#3. the problem is not some system. It is us. Each of us. We've got to fix ourselves before we can fix a whole damn country.
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#4. Rich father, rich mother, rich husband. I'm sure her whole life she's never known what it's like to worry about money." Licking
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#5. We cannot go around worrying about what the judge is going to decide. We just have to keep living.
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#6. How dare you mention it in front of him?" "I didn't know he was listening." "You don't need to know anything, Neni. You don't have to know who is listening to what you're saying. You only need to learn how to shut your mouth sometimes.
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#7. And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing.
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#8. But the Universe gives us different sources of Love to unite us all as One. Who are we to decide what the source of our Love should be at any given time? Love is Love, and at any given point we have everything we need.
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#9. Vince doesn't see this side of you, sir. He sees a father who works at a bank and makes money but I tell him, I say, your parents have other sides you do not see because you are their child. It is only now that I am old that I look at some things that my father did and I understand.
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#10. loved the poems so much that I decided to try writing one. Feels real good to just write out lines about whatever you're feeling. You should try it sometime." "It sounds very good, sir." "I wrote one for Cindy, but she didn't like it much, so I just write for myself now.
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#11. Home will never go away Home will be here when you come back You may go to bring back fortune You may go to escape misfortune You may even go, just because you want to go But when you come back We hope you'll come back Home will still be here.
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#12. He didn't say it; he had to keep his desperation from bursting through the thin layer of dignity it had been wrapped in throughout the interview. Clark smiled and patted him on the arm.
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#13. She shrugged: just like him to think of all the bad things that could happen. "Someday is not today,
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#14. Why should a man intentionally live his life with one kind of anxiety followed by another?
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#15. He imagined she had turned her phone off, and he couldn't blame her for silencing the world at such a time - her
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#16. indeed, bad news has a way of slithering into good days and making a mockery of complacent joys.
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#17. Germany was his favorite place to live, he said, because, even as a child, he could tell how much the Germans loved Americans, and it felt great to be loved for his nationality.
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#18. It's the fear that kills us, Leah," Jende said. "Sometimes it happens and it's not even as bad as the fear. That is what I have learned in this life. It is the fear.
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#19. His years on earth had taught him that good things happen to those who honor the kindheartedness of others.
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#20. He looked out the window at the people walking on Amsterdam Avenue. None of them seemed concerned that the day might be one of his last in America. Some of them were laughing. That
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#21. America was passing her by. New York City was passing her by. Bridges and billboards bearing smiling people were passing her by. Skyscrapers and brownstones were rushing by. Fast. Too fast. Forever.
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#22. while there existed great towns and cities all over the world, there was a certain kind of pleasure, a certain type of adventurous and audacious childhood, that only New York City could offer a child.
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