NoViolet Bulawayo famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.
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I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.
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[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.
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When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.
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When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong
-- NoViolet Bulawayo
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Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.
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Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.
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I don't do office work at home.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.
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You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.
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Everybody's always looking for the person they're better than
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The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
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