5 Quotes & Sayings By Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe

Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe is a writer, actress and director born in the United States. She grew up in California and Iran, and was raised as an American. She attended Columbia University and received her BA in Theatre and Film. Her passion for writing and film started at an early age Read more

She began writing short stories at the age of ten and continued with short stories, essays, plays and poetry throughout her teenage years. She wrote several screenplays as a teen that were never produced. At Columbia, she wrote a one-act play that was performed as part of the university’s theatre festival.

She met her husband on a blind date after meeting him on a plane ride to Iran to visit his relatives. They married in 2004 and have a son. Roxanna currently lives in Los Angeles, California where she writes books, plays, scripts and poems.

Roxanna’s first book "In the Shadow of the Moon" is available on Amazon Kindle Store as of May 2014.

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Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the exercise but she did not feel better. While she was crying she had wanted someone, anyone to come and hold her. She had crawled into her closet, hoisted herself up onto the shelf that had duvets and bedsheets and curled herself among those. Now she knew that no hug could erase her pain, no sort of embrace could bind up her heart. She needed a new heart it seemed, her old heart was beyond repair. Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe
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God doesn't want to be a mystery to us, God wants to be known. Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe
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Self-preservation is an enemy of love. Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe
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As the saying goes- “Habit trumps desire”. If you are a writer, you have to be writing. Write everyday. Set targets and meet them. Keep reading, keep learning, keep growing. Do not try to be a person you are not. Great writing is genuine and true. Remember to have the time of your life while at it :-) Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe