Dreaming in Color Quotes

“Of course, every time you have sex, it will not be identical: moods, spaces, times, touches, intentions all drift and mingle, forming new pathways, reflecting and drawing from past journeys, and ending somewhere that may look similar. But isn’t.”
― Uvile Ximba, Dreaming in Colour

“There are others too.
You just can’t run away from Cecil John Rhodes.
Not even impepho works for this fucker.
It’s hard.
We come back home to him, sit in all our classes with him, witness his vices reincarnate in the powers that bring us to still-Grahamstown for our degree.
We are there when the protests erupt.
Not front and centre, but there.
So is he.
And when the protests die down he is stronger, a demon that terrorises even in our sleep.
Rhodes and a system that molests and cons us into believing we are helpless, that we cannot overcome. But we also try to remember that in protests there is revelation, an exposure of truth, a coming out.”
― Uvile Ximba, Dreaming in Colour

“I discover that my skin can carry her, that I can know what she feels like without opening my legs, without closing my eyes, when I am walking down the street without touching her.”
― Uvile Ximba, Dreaming in Colour

“I told Khwezi that I didn’t tell my family about uChris. Because I didn’t know if I was lying to myself. Because why must you cause more pain to others over a loss you can’t remember? How does anyone begin to explain how “nothing” looks?”
― Uvile Ximba, Dreaming in Colour

“School can be the beginning of broken societies.”
― Uvile Ximba, Dreaming in Colour

“I have no problem with men. I just have a problem with men who feel entitled to women. And that just happens to be so many of you.”
― Uvile Ximba, Dreaming in Color

“Pain is not made for a person to keep inside.”
― Uvile Ximba, Dreaming in Color