Quotes by Maaza Mengiste

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

We must not be anything other than what we are.

“What is knows is this: there is no past, there is no what happened, there is only the moment that unfolds into the next, dragging everything with it, constantly renewing. Everything is happening at once.”

“What he knows is this: there is no past, there is no what happened, there is only the moment that unfolds into the next, dragging everything with it, constantly renewing. Everything is happening at once.”