Panashe Chigumadzi Quotes

“The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her.”

“The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her.”

“The house may have been impressive in stature, but having gasped as they drove up the driveway, she had been disappointed by the interior. It was so bare. Lacking in things. She was mystified by this invisible wealth and the austerity of the house.She didn’t understand Mrs Zvobgo, she was rich but chose to live, in Tsitsi’s opinion, like a pauper. She was clearly uninterested in buying things. Maybe it was because she had never known poverty. Tsitsi on the other hand felt she was well versed in it.Tsitsi, unlike Mrs Zvobgo, wasn’t above noveau riche vulgarities. She didn’t want any sort of English boarding school minimalism. She wanted more. She wanted things. Things . Things. Things. Many of them. That much she was willing to admit. She made a private decision then that she would change this when she became the woman of this household. She knew they said wealth whispered and rich shouted, but what good was having all that they did if she had to keep it like some sort of secret?”

“You can’t fight an evil disease with sweet medicine,’ says the ng’anga.”

“It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate.”

“Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and leading them to drink,to beating or the noose. Was this it?”

“Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true”

“The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.”

“Tsitsi and the rest of the nation who now found themselves degreed and broke, her parents and the parents of the nation with degreed children and still broke, had thought-convinced themselves-that the poverty of their lives could be eliminated by 'professionalisation'.”

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