Tapiwa Mugabe > Quotes

“You were born to be remembered, not missed.
Being missed means you eat up people’s memory
leaving them full of you but emtpy of themselves.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“Things to say when in love
i. I want to make you a planet.
ii. I will put the galaxy in your hair.
iii. Your kisses are a mouthful of firewater.
iv. I have never seen a more beautiful horizon than when you close your eyes. and
v. I have never seen a more beautiful dawn than when you open your eyes.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“You’re afraid to tell her you miss her in case it sounds like you love her more than she loves you. And her reply will be ‘I’ve been busy with work, I haven’t had time to think about other things’. You’re afraid you have become other things.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“I am not the sum of lovers I had or never had. As for lovers who left, consider them hair. Sometimes you cut it off for it to grow longer and more beautiful (but that doesn’t mean you hate pictures of yourself with it). Even after lovers you remain Beautiful.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“Sometimes goodness comes from treating yourself. Not like you burned earth to dust but like you made it into a beautiful body crowned it with stars, put a precious coat over it and called it home.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“Stop pouring so much of yourself into hearts that have no room for themselves.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“A son is not a lion or a jewel; he is a child who is as precious as a daughter. vi.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“Since the day you left me I waged war to stop the unholy yearning for you. I avoided you, fearing I might become a wild dog. I waited for the day I’d stop caring about you. Waiting”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“Today I wear my mother in my voice, I am clothed in her. I wear my sisters in my thinking, my grandmother in my bone, in my soul. I”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“What voice?
Tears wrote this.
Pain bore this.
When you are over-pregnant with fear
this is what you give birth to.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“You’re afraid to tell her you miss her in case it sounds like you love her more than she loves you. And”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“I am the hunger in a lion’s growl. I am heavy with desire, my heartbeat has slowed down. All I want is a good fire.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“You are Oceanic All she wanted was to find a place to stretch her bones. A place to lengthen her smiles and spread her hair. A place where her legs could walk without cutting and bruising. A place unchained. She was born out of ocean breath. I reminded her; ‘Stop pouring so much of yourself into hearts that have no room for themselves. Do not thin yourself. Be vast. You do not bring the ocean to a river’.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“You learnt it was human not womanly to cry. And”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“She She wears humble in her voice like a quarter moon veiled by night sky. Water is smooth and strong. She is burning with flowers. She has a mind that makes an idiot of genius. A day-moon, a star eating sky, eating morning. My eyes are held at attention by the beauty swimming across her face. My mind is an altar to her.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“I am not the sum of lovers I had
or never had.
As for lovers who left,
consider them hair.
Sometimes you cut it off
for it to grow longer and more beautiful
(but that doesn't mean you hate pictures
of yourself with it).
Even after lovers
you remain
Beautiful.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“Our daughters are prepared to run where your sons are taught to never go.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“You were born to be remembered, not missed. Being missed means you eat up people's memory leaving them full of you but empty of themselves.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“I waited for the day I'd stop caring about you.
Waiting for the midnight I realize
today I never wanted to pick up the phone
and tell you about the funny thing I saw
or about how busy and trying my day was.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“You do not bring the ocean to a river.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe

“and I prayed, and I prayed, and I prayed, because when I realized the joy I had today, I remembered crying for peace.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe

“[...] colonization was a paedophile [sic] who insists on being a parent.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“iv. I have never seen a more beautiful horizon than when you close your eyes.
and
v. I have never seen a more beautiful dawn than when you open your eyes.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“Would you not be happy if as a woman someone said they can see your brothers and your father in you? So if you see my mother and my sisters in me why should I get offended?”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“I’ve seen how cruel and heavy a man’s hand gets when he grows surrounded by brooding ego that celebrates fists and booming voices even when there are no brains or compassion. iii.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“[...] god is when you roll up your sleeves and do it yourself.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“I think she is the entire history of kindness all on its own. I only wish we were not falling apart.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“Fall in love with the wrong ones. Fall in love with the oddly shaped hours of the night. This is how I survived countries that didn’t want me 1.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“She wrote poetry that healed all of you. Even the parts of you that were hidden under shadows because you were not manly enough for your father. You”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe

“(And) you move as it
all your life
you have lived by water.”
― Tapiwa Mugabe, Zimbabwe