“The heart knows no logic beyond need and desire; the head has no senses except the common and the pragmatic. Neither, frankly, is particularly useful in love, anyway.”
― Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
― Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
“Until we begin to put pen to paper, we historically do not exist.”
― Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
― Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
“I had once been naïve enough to believe that all would be well if you lived by the rules. Good things happened to good people, blessed are the meek, et cetera, et cetera. How disillusioned I have become since then. It hurt, because I wondered now what all the discipline, repression, and suppression had been for if it had not procured me the thing I had most wanted, and it certainly did not guarantee happiness.”
― Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
― Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
“There is not a man in the world who is worth your dignity. Do not confuse self-sacrifice with love.”
― Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
― Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
“Foreign Cash is not the answers to our problems, my friend. Africa needs the hearts and minds of its sons and daughters to nurture it. You were our pride, Mukoma Bryon. When you did not return, a whole village lost its investment. Africa is all that we have. If we do not build it, no one else will.”
― Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
― Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
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