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China is a red devil looking for people to eat so it can grow fat and strong. Now we have to decide if it actually breaks into people’s homes or just ambushes them in the forest, Godknows says.
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NoViolet Bulawayo
“guess it was supposed to be this crazy new dance, daggering is the name of it. I thought it strange and wrong, but after a while I found myself clapping because that’s what everyone was doing. When a new, quieter song came on, Tony turned me around and”
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Peter Godwin
“The idea of land ‘ownership’ as such was an alien one. A white farmer once told me of his grandfather going to see a local chief about buying some land. ‘Buy land?’ said the chief. ‘You must be crazy, you don’t buy the wind or the water or the trees.”
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NoViolet Bulawayo
“when it is kept in like a heart, like blood, when you do not do anything with it, when you do not use it to hit, or even yell? Such rage is nothing, it does not count. It is just a big, terrible dog with no teeth.”
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

NoViolet Bulawayo
“They came in droves, abandoning the tatters that were our country. We did not think about mending the tatters, all we thought was: Leave, abandon, flee, run—anything. Escape.”
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

NoViolet Bulawayo
“When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.”
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

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