“If I’m lucky, like today, I get to be the U.S.A., which is a country-country; who doesn’t know that the U.S.A. is the big baboon of the world? I feel like it’s my country now because my aunt Fostalina lives… — NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names Copy Share Image
“It was fatness that did not interfere with the body; a neck was still a neck, a stomach a stomach, an arm an arm, a buttock a buttock. But this American fatness takes it to a whole ’nother level: the body is turned into something else—the neck becomes a thigh, the stomach becomes an anthill, an arm a thing, a… — NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names Copy Share
“We are careful not to touch the NGO people, though, because we can see that even though they are giving us things, they do… — NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names Copy Share Image
“If I’m lucky, like today, I get to be the U.S.A., which is a country-country; who doesn’t know that the U.S.A. is the big… — NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names Copy Share Image
“I don’t even bother with it anymore because eating it is really a disappointing thing, it feels like I’m just insulting my teeth.” — NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names Copy Share Image
