““I thought again about the contradiction Mozambique was. On the one hand there were people like Dona Maria, compassionate and caring, and on the other hand there was those who had no concern for the people in this country. Rita’s opinion, however, was that no matter how well intentioned the Europeans were, they never quite measured up. According to her, this concern for the Mozambicans from people like Dona Maria, although commendable, was a mere drop in the ocean compared with the reality in which the blacks were tortured, burned, raped, emasculated, drowned, decapitated, disemboweled, abducted and slowly but surely decimated. [196]””
![“My education had equipped me to suffer in silence, a form of passive endurance. Even though I know nothing about being brave, I soon realised that self-denial was like self-immolation. It was a state of stasis that relieved one of the responsibility to change things. [162]” quote by Farida Karodia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e1/farida-karodia-48939_change-things_my-education-had-equipped-me-to-suffer-i_2987259.jpg)
![“David had once told me that there was no sky as totally black as the African sky, where the stars hung so low that one could almost reach out to pluck them from the heavens. [270]” quote by Farida Karodia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/135/farida-karodia-48939_astronomy_david-had-once-told-me-that-there-was-no_3006773.jpg)
