literature

"The beauty of Rwanda’s landscape, which invites viewers to discover the country from a different perspective than that of the genocide."

"When I started writing, in a little blue notebook that I always kept with me, I had no intention of publishing. I was saving memory."

"I love a role that I can ground somewhere in myself. There are actors who love to extend themselves, I like to find extensions of myself."

"Some debates we had were surprisingly fundamental, even regarding terms like “Black,” “Bantu,” and “brown.” These words carry different political meanings depending on context"

""Love is one of the most profound ways to respond to these social pathologies. And by love I’m not talking about a feeling. I’m talking about an existential and metaphysical orientation if we are to k…"

""However, sometimes I feel that dealing with governments can be very high level: a lot of handshakes, exchanging of flags and books, and that's awesome. But what does the ecosystem have to gain? What …"

""I had wanted to be a visual artist. I wanted to paint and create with my fingers, but I couldn’t afford acrylic paint, and I didn’t yet really know how to use Photoshop, but I still wanted to express…"

"He loved the humble, set tenderness free Devoured the past"

"“The case is still lying open, and unless there is a finding, at the end of the day there will be no closure. And closure is necessary in this case in particular.”"

"It's a real tragedy that books are so expensive and there are so few libraries. I don't have any easy solutions. For my own books, I always negotiate with the publisher to get a much lower price in Ca…"

"The vast majority spent their days reading the Quran. The others, like me, did not know what to do, except for a bit of exercise or playing checkers."

"Writing for me is when I feel the most connected to myself and everything around me. I’d do it even if no-one ever read anything I wrote"

"Batswana must develop those habits of writing and sustain them"

"I think that perhaps the ways that some books are written do not cater for us and therefore feel alienating"

"I really like reading, and writing appeared to allow me to also leave traces, testimonies of my experiences and those that I see or that are reported to me by my contemporaries."

"One country, one constitution, one destiny."

"Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable…"

"Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows. We may pull apart the petals of a rose or make chemica…"

"Words, words. They’re all we have to go on."

"(an anguished cry): Consistency is all I ask! (low, wry rhetoric): Give us this day our daily mask."