6 Quotes by Zakes Mda

Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.

Death lives with us everyday. Indeed our ways of dying are our ways of living. Or should I say our ways of living are our ways of dying?

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.