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Quotes from Nervous Conditions — Tsitsi Dangarembga

born 1959 Zimbabwe

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I have seen enough to know that blame does not come in neatly packaged parcels.

Nervous Conditions (1988)

You had to know the facts if you were ever going to find the solutions.

Nervous Conditions (1988)

Keening. I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needless of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.

Nervous Conditions (1988)

Stars below instead of above! I wanted to see them straight away. I prayed for a miracle, for the sun to set.

Nervous Conditions (1988)

What I experienced that day was a short cut, a rerouting of everything I had ever defined as me into fast lanes that would speedily lead me to my destination. My horizons were saturated with me, my leaving, my going. There was no room for what I left behind.

Nervous Conditions (1988)

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