Nour

“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

“Memory’s the muscle sting of now.”
― David Chariandy, Brother

“But of course, you can’t ever really flee. You’ll forever run the risk of being spotted, if only for a second.”
― David Chariandy, Brother: A Novel

“I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists