11 quotes found
“Each heartbreak is a little death, all the same.”
“If I truly had the courage of my convictions, I would be a full-blown comic novelist.”
“People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.”
“Later, as she drove the children to school, she thought how worn the grooves were along which they moved their quarrels. She could feel herself saying all the clichd phrases of a thousand injured w...”
“This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education i...”
“I had never seen so many books gathered in a single space as I saw in that room. I felt less afraid when I thought of all the other people who seemed to have had harder lives than mine. I disappear...”
“Like the worthless dogs that are his countrymen, my husband believed that his penis was wasted if he was faithful to just one woman. - At the Sound of the Last Post”
“I was eight when independence happened. I remember my mum and dad getting dressed up to go to the independence concert to go listen to Bob Marley. Independence was such a wonderful time we had so m...”
“I was one of the first six black kids to integrate a formerly all-white school. I remember being looked at all the time and people laughing at my hair. I was also very self-conscious about the food...”
“It may well be that there will be this socialism, Juliana, she said, but I can tell you right now that no amount of socialism will make my madam was her own underwear. - Aunt Julianas Indian”
“It may well be that there will be this socialism, Juliana,’ she said, ‘but I can tell you right now that no amount of socialism will make my madam was her own underwear.’ - ‘Aunt Juliana’s Indian”
