Quotes by Rwandan Authors

Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy their masters and wish their downfall.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Gods can only keep their promises in books
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The Bible is man in a nutshell. Good and evil live side by side in the same book. That's why it's cherished. The good find in it encouragement, the weak solace, the evil, justification.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't worry about the smallest size that light can be, it will chase away the darkness.
Bruce Mbanzabugabo
Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The powerful have no conscience
Bangambiki Habyarimana
God covers United people with His glory
Paul Gitwaza
Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare
Bangambiki Habyarimana
How to write a book? Start writing,continue writing and finish writing.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Your true beliefs are known in agony
Bangambiki Habyarimana
True love makes you sleep and dream. But loud reality wakes you up
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The boundary between good and evil are clearer for more common folks but gets blurred more and more as people get more power over their fellows.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't expect it to be given to you. It is there already. Get it if you want it.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.
Immaculée Ilibagiza
Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
As long as they don't know, I am safe
Bangambiki Habyarimana
God's silence is an answer itself.
Paul Gitwaza
Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is no amount of sin a loving heart cannot forgive.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A good man? A man who successfully conceals his evil actions
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is no greater heaven the heart of a loving mother
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A hero: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition, and resolves to do something about it.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Family is the only why of life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.
Immaculée Ilibagiza
If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.
paul kagame
If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Science does not need religion. Religion does not need science. And the twain shall never meet
Bangambiki Habyarimana
My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds
Bangambiki Habyarimana
. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Civilization has made life a humanized jungle, a sugar coated jungle, but still a jungle
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Trials teach us patience and patience leads us to a place of hope
Paul Gitwaza
To be successful you must be willing to leave your comfort zone. Even then success is not guaranteed
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It’s an evil fate to fall into the hands of a persecutor who was once persecuted.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing a book is burning your brain to enlighten another man's mind
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Despair is the source of all evil
Bangambiki Habyarimana
What's the use of life without health? It's like living dead
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Why do women use make-up? They know the world is a make-up
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Arrogance is the last thing to die
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Condition A must be in place for action B to take place
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Death is the great incorruptible corruptor
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sometimes I reach the highest heights of hope, at other times I reach the deepest of despair. Sometimes I am happy, at other times I am sad. At some point I am a believer, and at some other time an unbeliever. Sometimes I love, some other times I hate. That’s what it means to be human.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is exposing yourself to strangers
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The optimist is a pessimist with a plan
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share
Bangambiki Habyarimana
She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?
Bangambiki Habyarimana