Maaza Mengiste

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

— Maaza Mengiste

Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

— Maaza Mengiste

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

— Maaza Mengiste

We must not be anything other than what we are.

— Maaza Mengiste

“All was normal, Hailu knew without looking, he could understand the body's silent language without the help of machinery. Years of practice…

— Maaza Mengiste

“How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?”

— Maaza Mengiste

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God…

— Maaza Mengiste

The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

— Maaza Mengiste