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NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: I always feel guilty around sick people because there is nothing I can do for them.

I always feel guilty around sick people because there is nothing I can do for them.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.

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

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn't remember their names.

If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn't remember their names.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: Look at them leaving in droves, arm in arm with loss and lost, look at hem leaving in droves.

Look at them leaving in droves, arm in arm with loss and lost, look at hem leaving in droves.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: Further and further we go, and the sun keeps ironing us and ironing us and ironing us.

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

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

You want Change, today we'll show you Change!
Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: We're hungry but we're together and we're at home and everything is sweeter than dessert.

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

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: It's not the lying itself that makes me feel bad but the fact that I'm here lying to my friends.

It's not the lying itself that makes me feel bad but the fact that I'm here lying to my friends.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: Look at that drum of a stomach, it's like he has swallowed a country.

Look at that drum of a stomach, it's like he has swallowed a country.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.

And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: 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.

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.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: Why do you want to see her thing? Don't you have yours to look at if you really want to see one?

Why do you want to see her thing? Don't you have yours to look at if you really want to see one?

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me.

If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.

That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: He doesn't tell Aunt Fostalina she looks good, like I've heard other people do; he tells her she looks like sunrise.

He doesn't tell Aunt Fostalina she looks good, like I've heard other people do; he tells her she looks like sunrise.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: [Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: Leaving your country is like dying, and when you come back you are like a ghost returning to earth, roaming around with missing gaze in your eyes

Leaving your country is like dying, and when you come back you are like a ghost returning to earth, roaming around with missing gaze in your eyes

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: Okay, A as in apple - Not apple. A as in anus, it's a different sound.

Okay, A as in apple - Not apple. A as in anus, it's a different sound.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

NoViolet Bulawayo quotes: Sometimes I don't even bother coming up with proper words for conversation. It's not necessary; some people are content to just talk to themselves.

Sometimes I don't even bother coming up with proper words for conversation. It's not necessary; some people are content to just talk to themselves.