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Mia Couto Quotes

born 1955 Mozambique

Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955), pseudonym of António Emílio Leite Couto, is a Mozambican writer and the winner of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 2013 Camões Prize.

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“The language of the other, suddenly, is the great instrument for creating an identity of one's own.”

"We do not inherit only a country. We inherit the responsibility to imagine it."

"Identity can only be spoken of in the plural."

"A writer does not create a world; he discovers the worlds hidden inside people."

"Every language carries a way of seeing the world."

"Writing is not about giving answers. It is about learning how to ask better questions."

"The greatest poverty is the inability to dream."

In war, the poor are killed. In peace, the poor dies.

Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mia Couto (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.