Dambudzo Marechera Quotes

#1. The world should not pass judgement upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or too harshly. The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

Booker T. Washington

#2. My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't.

John Edward

#3. You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

Carew Papritz

#4. Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.

Dennis Nurkse

#5. We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

Marianne Williamson

#6. Satiated with the great purposelessness of it, we gently belched nerve gases into the next generation

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#7. Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.

JD Era

#8. I take a deep breath. It doesn't begin to fill the void in my chest, a void that's been present since Saturday morning, a painful hollow reminder of my loss.

E.L. James

#9. When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening ... I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

Kathleen Norris

#10. Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

Richard Baxter

#11. THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh ... And the same thing is happening to my generation.

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#12. Dad, I don't know women very well, but I reckon they live by their hearts. You

Zane Grey

#13. If you are a writer for a specific nation or a specific race, then fuck you.

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#14. I used to like wolves; they always arrived so
Punctually in sheep's clothing at the mortuary
To be prepared for burial by my father who
Showered his wrath on my mother with blows
From his fists at night; this warrior, this Lord

Abigail George

#15. That guy punched me in the face for not liking what I said. I thought this was a country where you can say what you think, eh?

Sai Marie Johnson

#16. When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of trombones, scream

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#17. They think that you bear old age more [e] easily not because of the way you live but because you're wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations.

Plato

#18. It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

William Shakespeare