Weight of Whispers Quotes

“Now, at Balafon, the exiles were silent, to accommodate the ghosts of saints: Bolikango…Kasavubu..Lumumba…Kalondji…Tshombe…”
― Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Weight of Whispers

“The women were beautiful and our laughter loud.”
― Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Weight of Whispers

“Soon we will be gone. To Europe, where the wind’s weight of whispers do not matter; where wind, and all its suggestions have been obliterated.”
― Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Weight of Whispers

“We lamented the fact that Kenyans are on the whole, so unchic.”
― Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Weight of Whispers

“I walk, therefore I am.”
― Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Weight of Whispers

“Even the devastated destitute will tithe to co-modified gods, sure in the theatrics of frothing messengers, hope is being dolled out. Investing in an eternal future? I do not have a coin to spare. Not now, maybe later, when all is quiet and normal, I will evaluate the idea of a Banker God created in the fearful image of man.”
― Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Weight of Whispers

“In exile we lower our heads so that we do not see in the mirror of another’s eyes, what we suspect: that our precarious existence rests entirely on the whim of another’s tolerance of our presence.”
― Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Weight of Whispers

“Is it not magical how so full a list becomes so empty in so short a time?”
― Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Weight of Whispers

“I have woken up to find the world has shifted, moved, aged and I with it.”
― Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Weight of Whispers