Maaza Mengiste Quotes

We must not be anything other than what we are.

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?