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“You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
“...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. ”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“The boys could have been many things had they not been ruined by that place. Doctors who cured diseases or perform brain surgery, inventing shit that saves lives. Run for president. All those lost geniuses - sure not all of them were geniuses, Chickie Pete for example was not solving special relativity - but they had been denied even the simple pleasure of being ordinary. Hobbled and handicapped before the race even began, never figuring out how to be normal.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
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