Ayanda Xaba > Ayanda's Quotes

“A pen is not just a writing instrument, it's an object of creation.”
― Ayanda Xaba

“Then you must tell ’em dat love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Once we shrunk, men had to look after us, and it was not long before they started to own us. Fathers sold daughters; husbands bought wives. Once we became a commodity, men could do whatever they wished with us. Even now our bodies do not belong to us. That is why when they need it, they will grab it. Things were so bad in some cultures, women had to be hidden away to protect them, in separate spaces where no men were allowed. Soon, they had to be spoken for by men.”
― Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman

“Better? I always think good cake helps us reset things for a minute.”
― Jules Wake, The Saturday Morning Park Run