Dambudzo Marechera Quotes

If you are a writer for a specific nation or a specific race, then fuck you.

When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of trombones, scream

Satiated with the great purposelessness of it, we gently belched nerve gases into the next generation

As far as expressing the creative turmoil within my head was concerned, I took to the English language as a duck takes to water. I was therefore a keen accomplice and student in my own mental colonisation.

I used to like wolves; they always arrived so Punctually in sheep's clothing at the mortuary To be prepared for burial by my father who Showered his wrath on my mother with blows From his fists at night; this warrior, this Lord

As far as expressing the creative turmoil within my head was concerned, I took to the English language as a duck takes to water. I was therefore a keen accomplice and student in my own mental colonisation . . . For a black writer the language is very racist; you have to have harrowing fights and hair-raising panga duels with the language before you can make it do all that you want it to do . . . This may mean discarding grammar, throwing syntax out, subverting images from within, beating the drum and cymbals of rhythm, developing torture chambers of irony and sarcasm, gas ovens of limitless black resonance.