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Quotes from We Need New Names — NoViolet Bulawayo

born 1981 Zimbabwe

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9 quotes

“We're hungry but we're together and we're at home and everything is sweeter than dessert.”

We Need New Names (2013)

“There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that.”

We Need New Names (2013)

“...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet.”

We Need New Names (2013)

“If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.”

We Need New Names (2013)

“Further and further we go, and the sun keeps ironing us and ironing us and ironing us.”

We Need New Names (2013)

“I think the reason they are my relatives now is they are from my country too - it's like the country has become a real family since we are in America, which is not our country.”

We Need New Names (2013)

"I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away."

We Need New Names (2013)

"As for the coldness, I have never seen it like this. I mean, coldness that makes like it wants to kill you, like it's telling you, with its snow, that you should go back to where you came from."

We Need New Names (2013)

“I used to be very afraid of graveyards and death and such things, but not anymore. There is just no sense of being afraid when you live so near the graves; it would be like the tongue fearing the teeth.”

We Need New Names (2013)

Attribution

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