"I was once housed, fed and protected by prostitutes when my life was in danger because of my activism during the liberation struggle. Up to that time I had not paid much attention to prostitutes as human beings"

"The beauty of being a child of the diaspora is that we are able to reinvent ourselves and what it means to be African."

"Vampires that suck your shadow and confidence."

"Some were chiefs. My grandmother was a chief’s wife who influenced the chief in good governance. I had an aunt born in Bulawayo who married a foreigner in 1936. She started the burial societies. My paternal men were moneymakers, my maternal men were chiefs. I have always done things in my own way, since primary school"

"This is what is happening in our society and people tend to shy away from talking about it. So as a writer I have found a niche"

"The act of using collage is helpful as a reminder of the fragility of the human condition."

"In essence, the exhibition is about me… trying to find myself in these images. A lot of the people in the photographs are not people I was close to, you know, growing up. But they sort of played a role in influencing the way I think."

"I allowed myself to learn from them instead of imposing ideas of how I wanted Zimbabwe to be."

"Aftrica is an oral culture. The orality of things is selective—we choose what we talk about. Black people in a black community are expected to behave in a certain way. Someone asked me ‘Are you still black"

"I believe in speaking for those who can’t speak for themselves. In the 1970s I was rescued by these women, by sex workers. Those people had a heart. They were women, mothers and sisters. They really felt for people. If a man wrote it, he wouldn’t understand how it worked. These women never have the time to sit and write their experiences. They are too shameful, too embarrassing"

"What COVID-19 has taught us is that health system resilience is the job of everyone."

"I am one of those people who put 100% into whatever I am doing, so side hustles would never work for me. It has to be all in!"

"I’m a scientist, you can see them blinking."

"Every African country must have a smart agriculture transformation plan."

"For me, literature is an incredibly important way of telling the truth."

"A good writer has a sense of integrity that is hard to compromise."

"Editors are a bit like stage-hands: the play can’t go on without them, and yet their role is necessarily in the shadows. It is, however, interesting to see how many writers acknowledge their editors – the third eye is of value."

"Books open up new worlds for us emotionally, geographically, culturally; by encouraging understanding, they help us to develop more compassionate, rational, tolerant societies, giving rise to a more broad-minded world."

"“I hope this will be an inspiration and an example to young people.”"

"I think if you’re a white Zimbabwean, you have an extra responsibility to give back if you can. My hope as a publisher for more than 30 years is that I have enabled a corpus of work proffering many different stories and points of view."

"So, thanks to grandmother Mahembe, agriculture is in my blood. She instilled in me the passion for agriculture that inspired me to remain in school until I attained my PhD in Animal Production."

"All my work as a writer has to do specifically with the black condition, the black woman’s condition and theorising about and speaking to black liberation; black revolution."

"There's way hipper, trendier shit happening in spaces unsafe for lily-white skinned people's privilege."

"As a black woman, black people, you’re not supposed to crumble."

"Activists travel - we are the voice of the voiceless and speak the truth,"

"Even those who live in the diaspora, when they speak about their experiences in Zimbabwe it does not mean they are not being patriotic."

"The past, present, and future, all wrapped into one."

"'I have gained more confidence and am more eager to do my duty as leader and a women's rights activist'."

"Why do we want to glorify and justify rape, rape is rape!"

"We all know what a coconut is, don’t we? It’s a person who is “black on the outside” but “white on the inside."

"“Acceptance for these women is a challenge, unless they have someone to take them back to their families and act as an intermediary, asking for the family’s forgiveness, and asking them to accept the women back into their homes and lives.”"

"Labour of love."

"I am a spiritual being and music lover."

"Bulawayo, I am from Bulawayo, the second city of Zimbabwe. On a return to Home, I found, saw, so many people wearing the black patch of mourning attached to their shirts. I knew what the patch meant and for whom it was worn; a generation decimated by AIDS and parents burying their children. It was with profound grief that I created HOME."

"I always believed in myself. I always believed I could do anything I wanted to do. There was never a doubt in my mind that I could do anything."

"To the young teenage mother, you are not damaged goods. God loves you as you are. Have a plan for your life and work hard to achieve your goals not only for you but for your child. Build a support system around you. We need each other to succeed. I always say it took a village to make Zimbabwe’s first abdominal transplant and hepato biliary trained surgeon."

"My message to teen mom’s: you made a mistake, so what! No one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes. Pick yourself up and be a boss babe. Building a beautiful life and empire for you and your kids. Take the obstacles in your life and use them as building blocks for an amazing life. Have a vision for your life and set specific goals with deadlines to achieve those goals. Trust in God and believe in yourself. Have confidence, be brave. You are amazing and you are worthy. You can do anything if you set your mind to it. You have to be willing to work day and night to achieve your dreams."

"I didn’t know how I was going to ever fulfill my dream."

"Until the lion learns to write tales of hunting, we'll always glorify the hunter"

"She is a founder of cutting Edge Neurosurgeon Inc., a web based start up."

"She fought her way to the top in a male-dominated field despite hearing discouraging comments like, “Girls don’t belong in an operating room,” from some attending physicians."

"She is a public speaker who has been invited to lecture at various colleges and universities across the USA and spoken to numerous book clubs and civic organisations and served on many literary panels including being an invited guest of The Gotenberg Literary Festival."

"With her impressive background and extensive experience as an infectious disease expert, I am confident in Dr Hlatshwayo Davis’ ability to lead our Covid-19 response as well as our efforts to improve health outcomes across the city"

"African women especially young ones have been silent foe so long. We are the discussed,the studied,the analysed and the written about. And I am so privileged to have been able to raise my voice and speak for what we felt and cried and yearned."

"At 39 years, she has made history as the first black woman health director of St. Louis."

"I saw the world as vast and magical with so many cultures and people. It opened me up and made me very adaptable to change. It also meant that I was not afraid to be in strange places, to experience and to learn."

"And my primary focus across all of those priorities, whether it's with my staff, with COVID, and with other health care conditions, is equity. Making sure that I lead with equity, that I center equity, and that I do everything with a lens for equity."

"Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgment of even great minds."