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Quotes by Rwandan Authors
"Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring."
"Some people sit at life' banquet table while others serve them."
"Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves."
"A woman is a poem, a man is a report."
"Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily."
"You cannot write if you are not angry."
"Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage."
"Some people quit when victory is around the corner."
"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor."
"A spiritual realm is more obedient than a temporal one. In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests; in a temporal realm people don't obey wholeheartedly as they distrust their corrupt officials."
"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
"I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry."
"People don't only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don't say and say what they don't mean; so listen with your whole being also. Let your whole being connect to theirs. Do not only listen to their voice, but also to their body language and their emotions. Listen with your ears and your heart."
"Nothing closes doors as quickly as constant bad humor, reclamation, whining. Nobody wants to associate themselves with losers."
"Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazy."
"Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it."
"Writing is self-pleasure."
"When a protector leaves you, it looks like the end of the world. But you gradually learn to walk by your own feet."
"Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death."
"Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything."
"To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself."
"It's natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to value those less fortunate than you are."
"You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full."
"Encouraging words are hands that pool others from the despair of life."
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