“Where are the drugs? The drugs are where the disease is not,” Dr. Mugyenyi said. “And where is the disease? The disease is where the drugs are not.”
“He wanted to exude authority and power, but these were qualities he did not have. They were, as it happened, the very air that Mami breathed.”
― The Man Who Could Move Clouds
― The Man Who Could Move Clouds
“What we are certain of is the overwhelming message: in all of his daughters’ dreams, Nono expressly asked for his body to be exhumed. We are to unearth Nono’s remains.”
― The Man Who Could Move Clouds
― The Man Who Could Move Clouds
“I realized only later that they were my first loves, these earthbound, dusty women, my first audiences and inspiration. Back then, even amid political violence and deprivation, hopes dashed over and over again, in the market, everything seemed so simple, so near, beyond the tentacles of the mighty who would want to crush us: a women's world with other rules.”
― What Storm, What Thunder
― What Storm, What Thunder
“I wrote from real life, and when Northerners advised me it was fiction, I conceded that maybe it was. What did I know—an immigrant, writing in her second tongue? Maybe my life was a fiction.”
― The Man Who Could Move Clouds
― The Man Who Could Move Clouds
“There are moments like this, and here was not the first, when I understood why they wear on us so, why they chain us, beat us, rape us, hate us, and what I understood was that they would never have this, for all their power, their guns, their gold, they could never get to this feeling”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
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