The writers in Zimbabwe were also [like the characters in the literature they produced] basically men at the time. - Tsitsi Dangarembga

It wasn't African literature that I came to first. It was the Afro-American women writers, I found them very helpful. (Such as, for example?) Toni Morrison, who is really incredible. Then I read Alice Walker and Maya Angelou, and of course there are several others I can't remember right now.

Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. The one does not acknowledge the other's existence.

People who fear greatly can sometimes substitute themselves for the thing they fear.