In the midst of the womb Quotes

“All my internal women and children wanted to create greatness. They held my spiritual bones wherever I was, all that time.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“I talked to a mourning petal that day about all the hurting stories I did not tell anyone.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“I felt like a street clown. My bones were with me and my spirit in the street, playing here and there.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“My honey bronze legs were sprawled on top of his chino laps, my aura was orange. What were the odds?”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“Women are dangerous Alex. Women keep silent once, and twice? It is spilled milk and the earth spewed out. The danger of it all starts in the kicking voice that comes with it having the womb.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“I taught myself that a South African woman does not carry her baby with a kitenge. That I stay in a township, that there were Sangomas and not Kimbanguism… I got used to the fact that my bible was my bible. God was God, that I had that home.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“My heart has turned black bitumen out of the sadness, but I know it will never burn out. I will never have cinders of you.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“For every day under the sun, he slowly began to live life like he felt the branches in his heart with its flowers blooming and its roots tightening.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“You are the world in my heart, always.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“We were children in struggle, of the sun in crimson soil.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“I told myself that one day these branches in my heart will turn into a glade of two tamed hearts, that one day life will serve me revolutionary enough to make this world ours.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“Where does it hurt the most, Tajiri? In your lungs or the heart?”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“My child, this life is not our mother.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“Sometimes we are given people in our lives for a little while to get the breed of greatness found in them so they will manifest in us even when they are out of sight.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“Sometimes our feelings fly home. Sometimes we make home cooked meals and feed our souls. We align ourselves with our feelings.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“It was testimonial that sometimes light wanders around anywhere in human life, even in cracked hearts.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“It is in your heart. There is a tree growing in your heart, of wealth, right there. There is already a world in there. Its branches will someday heal another heart.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“To the women that carried my spiritual bones when my own wrists were too loose, my mama. I use the word women because she is a lot of women in one.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb

“Poetry found me playing in the streets, it said, bleed, bleed everywhere, and do not stop writing.”
― Tsholofelo Lehaha, In the midst of the womb