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“How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?”

— Tsitsi Dangarembga This Mournable Body (2018)

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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.

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The writers in Zimbabwe were also [like the characters in the literature they produced] basically men at the time.

People who fear greatly can sometimes substitute themselves for the thing they fear

This Mournable Body (2018)

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.

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