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Top 25 NoViolet Bulawayo Quotes (2025 Update)

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “There is no night so long that doesn’t end with dawn.”

1. “There is no night so long that doesn’t end with dawn.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.”

2. “When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.”

3. “When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “Why did you just leave? If its your country you have to love it to live in it and not leave it. You have to fight for it no mater what, to make it right. Tell me, do you abandon your house because it’s burning or do you find water to put out the fire? And if you leave it burning, do you expect the flames to turn into water and put themselves out?”

4. “Why did you just leave? If its your country you have to love it to live in it and not leave it. You have to fight for it no mater what, to make it right. Tell me, do you abandon your house because it’s burning or do you find water to put out the fire? And if you leave it burning, do you expect the flames to turn into water and put themselves out?”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “I used to be very afraid of graveyards and death and such things, but not anymore. There is just no sense of being afraid when you live so near the graves; it would be like the tongue fearing the teeth.”

5. “I used to be very afraid of graveyards and death and such things, but not anymore. There is just no sense of being afraid when you live so near the graves; it would be like the tongue fearing the teeth.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn’t remember their names.”

6. “If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn’t remember their names.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”

7. “Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “They will never be the same again because you just cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same.”

8. “They will never be the same again because you just cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “Leaving everything that makes them who and what they are, leaving because it is no longer possible to stay. They will never be the same again because you just cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same.”

10. “Leaving everything that makes them who and what they are, leaving because it is no longer possible to stay. They will never be the same again because you just cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “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 at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong.”

11. “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 at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me.”

12. “If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “Look at them leaving in droves, arm in arm with loss and lost, look at them leaving in droves.”

13. “Look at them leaving in droves, arm in arm with loss and lost, look at them leaving in droves.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “We’re hungry but we’re together and we’re at home and everything is sweeter than dessert.”

14. “We’re hungry but we’re together and we’re at home and everything is sweeter than dessert.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “Aunt Fostalina says when she first came to America she went to school during the day and worked nights at Eliot’s hotels, cleaning hotel rooms together with people from countries like Senegal, Cameroon, Tibet, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and so on. It was like the damn United Nations there, she likes to say.”

15. “Aunt Fostalina says when she first came to America she went to school during the day and worked nights at Eliot’s hotels, cleaning hotel rooms together with people from countries like Senegal, Cameroon, Tibet, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and so on. It was like the damn United Nations there, she likes to say.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “In America we saw more food than we had seen in all our lives and we were so happy we rummaged through the dustbins of our souls to retrieve the stained, broken pieces of God.”

16. “In America we saw more food than we had seen in all our lives and we were so happy we rummaged through the dustbins of our souls to retrieve the stained, broken pieces of God.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “It’s not the lying itself that makes makes me feel bad but the fact that I’m here lying to my friends. I don’t like not playing with them and I don’t like lying to them because they are the most important thing to me and when I’m not with them I feel like I’m not even me.”

17. “It’s not the lying itself that makes makes me feel bad but the fact that I’m here lying to my friends. I don’t like not playing with them and I don’t like lying to them because they are the most important thing to me and when I’m not with them I feel like I’m not even me.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “As for the coldness, I have never seen it like this. I mean, coldness that makes like it wants to kill you, like it’s telling you, with its snow, that you should go back to where you came from.”

18. “As for the coldness, I have never seen it like this. I mean, coldness that makes like it wants to kill you, like it’s telling you, with its snow, that you should go back to where you came from.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “Further and further we go, and the sun keeps ironing us and ironing us and ironing us.”

19. “Further and further we go, and the sun keeps ironing us and ironing us and ironing us.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “He doesn’t tell Aunt Fostalina she looks good, like I’ve heard other people do; he tells her she looks like sunrise.”

20. “He doesn’t tell Aunt Fostalina she looks good, like I’ve heard other people do; he tells her she looks like sunrise.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.”

21. “And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “When you look into their faces it’s like something that was in there got up and gathered its things and walked away.”

22. “When you look into their faces it’s like something that was in there got up and gathered its things and walked away.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.”

23. “If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life.”

24. “Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life.”

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NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “They just like taking pictures... They don’t care that we are embarrassed by our dirt and torn clothing, that we would prefer they didn’t do it; they just take pictures anyway, take and take.”

25. “They just like taking pictures... They don’t care that we are embarrassed by our dirt and torn clothing, that we would prefer they didn’t do it; they just take pictures anyway, take and take.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo Quote: “We stayed, like prisoners, only we chose to be prisoners and we loved our prison; it was not a bad prison. And when things only got worse in our country, we pulled our shackles even tighter and said “We are not leaving America, no, we are not leaving.”

26. “We stayed, like prisoners, only we chose to be prisoners and we loved our prison; it was not a bad prison. And when things only got worse in our country, we pulled our shackles even tighter and said “We are not leaving America, no, we are not leaving.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

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