The Scent of Burnt Flowers Quotes

“This is the land of our ancestors, those who survived the perilous journey across the ocean, thrown overboard and adapted to the water; we return to this land, to help free and be freed.”
― Blitz Bazawule, The Scent of Burnt Flowers

“My Daughter, the ocean holds everything you seek. We belong to it and it belongs to us.”
― Blitz Bazawule, The Scent of Burnt Flowers

“My Water Baby. You have a purpose. Find it.”
― Blitz Bazawule, The Scent of Burnt Flowers

“Only a fool checks the depth of a river with both feet.”
― Blitz Bazawule, The Scent of Burnt Flowers

“Can you imagine the colonized fighting on behalf of the colonizer to protect the colonizer from being colonized?”
― Blitz Bazawule, The Scent of Burnt Flowers