"If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance."

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Jabari Asim

#Memories Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Writing Quotes

“We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.”
“Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.”

Source : Lawrence Kushner (1998). “Eyes remade for wonder: a Lawrence Kushner reader”, Jewish Lights Pub
“Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.”
“Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.”
“The reason I love Luis Palau is because this is a guy who is completely all about evangelism and reaching people and the lost with the gospel.”
“Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.”
“Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!”

Source : St Gertrude the Great (2009). “The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude the Great”, p.112, TAN Books
“To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.”

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