Panashe Chigumadzi Quotes

A person is a person through others. This truth extends across time and space. We are through those who have come before us, those who have come with us and those who will come after us. Spirit possession, at the heart of Chimurenga, is an exercise in timelessness. It is those in the present communing with those in the past about the future concerning those who will come. Chimurenga has always been the intergenerational spirit of African self-liberation. It is not linear, it is bones that go into the earth and rise again and again. ~ Panashe Chigumadzi

You can't fight an evil disease with sweet medicine,' says the ng'anga. ~ Panashe Chigumadzi

Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true ~ Panashe Chigumadzi

It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate. ~ Panashe Chigumadzi

You know, Tsitsi, you are so quick to point out that you are not a prostitute. I just want to laugh because you are just falling into rank. You all should spare us your 'morality' that lauds 'women' over the supposedly lesser 'whores' and 'girls'. That's how society sees us. That's how you see us. You want it to be that we are like coal, only to be loved in the dark and tossed like ashes come morning. ~ Panashe Chigumadzi

Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and leading them to drink,to beating or the noose. Was this it? ~ Panashe Chigumadzi