Maraire Nozipo Quotes & Sayings

You shall be distinguished overseas by your colourful plumage, graceful flight and beautiful songs. There are so many lovely features that will make you conspicuous among the flock. — J. Nozipo Maraire

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession. — John Cale

The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work. — Seth Godin

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again. — Kristin Cashore

As my wife will attest, I do not shop casually. — George Vecsey

You ever feel like home is the one place you can't go back to? It's like you promise yourself when you got out of bed and combed your hair that this evening, when I get back I'll be a different woman in a new place. And now you can't go back because the house expects something from you. — Marlon James

I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same. — Alessandro Baricco

Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter. — J. Nozipo Maraire

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds. — J. Nozipo Maraire

The heart knows no logic beyond need and desire; the head has no senses except the common and the pragmatic. Neither, frankly, is particularly useful in love, anyway. — J. Nozipo Maraire

I like sitting in the dark and watching people far more talented than I'll ever be sing my songs and say my words. It's thrilling. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Until we begin to put pen to paper, we historically do not exist. — J. Nozipo Maraire

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful. — Sherry Turkle

Foreign Cash is not the answers to our problems, my friend. Africa needs the hearts and minds of its sons and daughters to nurture it. You were our pride, Mukoma Bryon. When you did not return, a whole village lost its investment. Africa is all that we have. If we do not build it, no one else will. — J. Nozipo Maraire

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research. — Nancy Grace

To love is a beautiful, mysterious event; do not miss it. Be neither too cautious nor too absorbed. Too many of us reason with our heart and experience with our heads. — J. Nozipo Maraire

Dukhoborcheskaya — Thomas Paine

Welcome, my dear, to the Western world, land of democracy, freedom, and bigotry. — J. Nozipo Maraire

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years. — Kurt Fuller

Set out time to worship God in your closet, give Him quality praise and watch Him raise you. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting for. — J. Nozipo Maraire

There is not a man in the world who is worth your dignity. Do not confuse self-sacrifice with love. — J. Nozipo Maraire

I suspect, even more importantly, the aged are hidden away so that we do not remember that one day we shall all walk that path, that we shall one day grow slow and stooped. — J. Nozipo Maraire