Marina

“Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow

“Damaged people recognize other damaged people. It’s like a club you don’t want a membership to.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“A slave is a fallen king whose only hope to live is to one day recover his throne”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana

“minuscule bacteria known as yersinia pestis. Even seven centuries ago diseases liked to use the latest improvements in human transportation to introduce themselves to new hosts.”
― Michael Jason Brandt, Plagued, With Guilt