31 Quotes by Zimbabwean authors

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Zimbabwean voices carry an earthy, steady music, mbira rhythms of counsel and consolation. Sayings move with the patience of a drought-season queue and the sudden joy of first rains, valuing kinship, land, and the dignity of work. Elders speak in parables of cattle, clay, and stones; humor softens lessons, irony pricks pride, and courage walks quietly. Shona and Ndebele traditions honor hunhu/ubuntu, where a person is woven from others. Expect images of rivers and granite, fields and hearths, and a faithful belief that tomorrow is made together.

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"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer"

Gerald Clarke, Politician

"The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought"

Nick Price, Athlete

"We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"The only white man you can trust is a dead white man"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

Small: Robert Mugabe

"Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence"

Nick Price, Athlete

"His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction"

Gerald Clarke, Politician

"He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is"

Nick Price, Athlete

"Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously"

Gerald Clarke, Politician

"In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels"

Gerald Clarke, Politician

"Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously"

Gerald Clarke, Politician

"All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet"

Joshua Nkomo, Politician