About NoViolet Bulawayo: NoViolet Bulawayo is a Zimbabwean author, and Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (2012–2014).
If you are stealing something it’s better if it’s small and hideable or something you can eat quickly and be done with, like guavas. This way, people can’t see you with the thing to be reminded that you are a shameless thief and that you stole ...
And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.
You want Change, today we'll show you Change! Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!
...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet.
I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.
Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.
If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.
[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.
When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look ...
