Language Quotes by NoViolet Bulawayo

“Further and further we go, and the sun keeps ironing us and ironing us and ironing us.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“Heaven is boring. Didn't you see, in that picture book back when we used to go to school? It's just plain and white and…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“You pray and pray and pray and nothing changes, like for example I prayed for a real house and good clothes and a bicycle…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“It's not the lying itself that makes me feel bad but the fact that I'm here lying to my friends.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“a country is a Coca-Cola bottle that can smash on the floor and disappoint you”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“Look at them leaving in droves despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong, knowing…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“this place doesn't look like my America”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“He speaks with this tone like he owns things, but we know that even the baton stick in his hands is not his, that…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“At first it comes in small drops; that's how pee does, if somebody is watching, then it just won't come. I get more tiny…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“When you look into their faces it's like something that was in there got up and gathered its things and walked away.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“Others with names like myths, names like puzzles, names we had never heard before: Virgilio, Balamugunthan, Faheem, Abdulrahman, Aziz, Baako, Dae-Hyun, Ousmane, Kimatsu. When…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo