Tsitsi Dangarembga Quotes

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

I was not sorry when my brother died.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

What it is, ” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.

She thinks she is white, ' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.