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Quotes from Ways of Dying — Zakes Mda

born 1948 South Africa

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By the time he has finished, every inch of the walls is covered with bright pictures – a wallpaper of sheer luxury.

Ways of Dying (1995)

You have always been good at creating beautiful things with your hands.

Ways of Dying (1995)

It is strange how things don’t change in these shanty towns or squatter camps or informal settlements or whatever you choose to call them.

Ways of Dying (1995)

Hymns flow into one another in unplanned but pleasant segues.

Ways of Dying (1995)

We are like two hands that wash each other.

Ways of Dying (1995)

You see, they say they are fighting for freedom, yet they are no different from the tribal chief and his followers. They commit atrocities as well.

Ways of Dying (1995)

When they believe all the children are asleep, they want to be pleasured. The next day they wake up and continue with their empty theories.

Ways of Dying (1995)

Funerals were held only on Saturday and Sunday mornings those days, because death was not as prevalent then as it is at present.

Ways of Dying (1995)

In those days, they did not allow people of his colour onto any of the beaches of the city, so he could not carry out his ablutions there, as he does today.

Ways of Dying (1995)

We go for what we call a joll. All it means is that we engage in an orgy of drinking, raping, and stabbing one another with knives and shooting one another with guns.

Ways of Dying (1995)

Attribution

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