“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
― The Rose That Grew From Concrete
― The Rose That Grew From Concrete
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
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“He wrote about how stupid the people there could be. I never imagines white people could be stupid. He met people who had never read Shakespear and couldn't form a proper sentence in their own native tongue - though in this respect it looked as if my own daughter might be taking the same route. [29]”
― The Hairdresser of Harare
― The Hairdresser of Harare
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
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“I can only say that friendship should rise above man-made laws, which tend to be capricious by their very nature.”
― The Hairdresser of Harare
― The Hairdresser of Harare
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