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Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors
"Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions."
"We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races."
"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go."
"People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency."
"We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards."
"So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe."
"Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically."
"The sky belongs to eagles, even during storms."
"Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy."
"We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done."
"We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough."
"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."
"In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy."
"Courage treats the weak better than fear treats the strong."
"Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously."
"Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life."
"Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity."
"His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction."
"Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse."
"I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement."
"In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels."
"Be the sun in someone's dark sky."
"True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement."
"He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is."
"Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously."
"We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating."
"Rather than always impose your will, allow men to learn from their mistakes. Great failures make great teachers; success enables one to forget some thingsa failure cannot afford to."
"The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality."
"All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet."
"One who is thankful for a slice of bread is more blessedthan one who is ungrateful for a loaf."
"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans."
"It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons."
"As water drowns but also cleanses, so adversity scalds but also blesses."
"Don't ruin a good opportunity fixating on a bad one."
"I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer."
"The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death."
"It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones."
"Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change."
"Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues."
"A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds."
"Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!"
"A seed rises from dirt to prove to the world that its greatness lies not on what the world thinks of it, but from within."
"If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish."
"Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins."
"True beauty isn't what you put on your face, it's what you put in people's hearts."
"Today's tears water tomorrow's gardens."
"When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest."
"Do not hold grudges against those who try to keep you down; the higher you go, the smaller they become. Do not trust those who try to push you down once you are up; the more envious they are, the more dangerous they become."
"The caterpillar they despise today is the butterfly they praise tomorrow."
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