Quotes by : Petina Gappah

Like the worthless dogs that are his countrymen, my husband believed that his penis was wasted if he....

I was one of the first six black kids to integrate a formerly all-white school. I remember being looked....

Later, as she drove the children to school, she thought how worn the grooves were along which they moved....

I was eight when independence happened. I remember my mum and dad getting dressed up to go to the independence....

Each heartbreak is a little death, all the same.

I had never seen so many books gathered in a single space as I saw in that room. I felt less afraid when....

It may well be that there will be this socialism, Juliana,’ she said, ‘but I can tell you right now....

People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary....

This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered....

If I truly had the courage of my convictions, I would be a full-blown comic novelist.