Maaza Mengiste Quotes

#1. Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone?

Caitlin Moran

#2. Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

Maaza Mengiste

#3. I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

Og Mandino

#4. Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come ...

Gautama Buddha

#5. The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

Maaza Mengiste

#6. Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

William Hazlitt

#7. How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

Maaza Mengiste

#8. If it wasn't for the roaming bands of dead, it might not be such a bad place.

Kerry Nietz

#9. That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#10. We must not be anything other than what we are.

Maaza Mengiste

#11. You are trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom

Samuel R. Delany

#12. In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.

George Emil Palade

#13. A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

Maaza Mengiste

#14. Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

Condoleezza Rice

#15. I had never binge-watched TV before 'Orange.'

Ruby Rose

#16. Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

Patricia Hill Collins

#17. God desires to use every believer to spread his kingdom everywhere in a grand manner.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Vincent Van Gogh

#19. The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

Maaza Mengiste

#20. People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

Gloria Allred

#21. When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

Maaza Mengiste