Tsitsi Dangarembga quotes
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“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.”
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“Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.”
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“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.”
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“This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.”
-- Tsitsi DangarembgaSource : 1988 Nervous Conditions, ch.1.
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“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.”
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“I was not sorry when my brother died”
-- Tsitsi DangarembgaSource : "Nervous Conditions". Book by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1988.
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“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
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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“It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.”
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“When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.”
Source : 'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 4
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“Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.”
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“Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.”
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