Chenjerai Hove famous quotes

When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
-- Chenjerai Hove

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Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.
-- Chenjerai Hove

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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

I like my men like I like my coffee. Silent.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.