Top 26 Tsitsi Quotes
#1. Tsitsi and the rest of the nation who now found themselves degreed and broke, her parents and the parents of the nation with degreed children and still broke, had thought-convinced themselves-that the poverty of their lives could be eliminated by 'professionalisation'.
Panashe Chigumadzi
#2. I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.
Michael Pena
#3. The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
H.L. Mencken
#4. Say a woman is more than the sum of her parts and I'll listen. Say she is more than fruit and blossom and branch and I'll nod my head yes. But say the body does not want and I will fall to the floor under the weight of a world that does not need the sweet talk of a heartbeat.
Sonja Livingston
#6. It's bad enough ... when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That's the end, really, that's the end.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#7. What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.
Richelle Mead
#9. Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.
Neil Gaiman
#10. Love is the only emotion that expands intelligence,
Peter M. Senge
#11. If someone smiles at you it does not mean they're happy. It just means "I think that if I smile I might get out of this alive!"
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#13. She thinks she is white,' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#14. Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#15. You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. Youve got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#16. Every time you respond in a certain fashion, it gets easier and easier
to respond.
Marshall Sylver
#17. For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?
Hal Duncan
#18. That's when I realize that if anyone's an oxymoron, it's me. Or maybe it's anyone who claims to follow Jesus.
Rachel Held Evans
#19. Words like 'always' and 'never' were meaningful to my father, who thought in absolutes and whose mind consequently made great leaps in antagonistic directions when it leapt at all.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#20. The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#21. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception ... you see what is, where most people see what they expect.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#22. Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?
Phillip Adams
#23. Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#24. Hustling sex for cash ain't dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin' yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won't get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin' bag.
Jon Michaelsen
#25. One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.
Vladimir Putin
#26. Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
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