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Quotes by Rwandan Authors

"What you call love on your side may be called lust on another's side."

"Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves."

"I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry."

"Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind."

"Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazy."

"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."

"You cannot write if you are not angry."

"Nothing closes doors as quickly as constant bad humor, reclamation, whining. Nobody wants to associate themselves with losers."

"We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life."

"Don't look for the devil outside, look inside and exorcise yourself."

"We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife."

"If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains."

"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."

"A woman is a poem, a man is a report."

"Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage."

"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."

"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."

"Beware of people who tell you it can't be done. They want to remain on the market alone."

"The reason you don't succeed in life is because you are too lenient with your deadly enemies. Identify them and eradicate them completely, don't let any of their seed escape your vengeful sword. Don't negotiate with the enemy and never make deals with them. Only after you have wiped them out of the map will success smile at you."

"Don't complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering."

"Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily."

"Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!"
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