Zimbabwean Author Quotes

There is a severe moment one wishes to retreat from because the time before, in its not- knowing, its not-tragedy, is preferable and consoling, and good.

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

NoViolet Bulawayo

Quietly, unobtrusively and extremely fitfully something in my mind began to assert itself, to question things and refuse to be brainwashed, bringing me to this time when I can set down this story. It was a long and painful process for me, that process of expansion.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

I couldn't have stayed on in that House of Hunger where every morsel of sanity was snatched from you the way some kinds of bird snatch food from the very mouths of babes. And the eyes of that House of Hunger lingered upon you as though some indefinable beast was about to pounce upon you.

Dambudzo Marechera