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NoViolet Bulawayo
“The problem with English is this: You usually can't open your mouth and it comes out just like that--first you have to think what you want to say. Then you have to find the words. Then you have to carefully arrange those words in your head. Then you have to say the words quietly to yourself, to make sure you got them okay. And finally, the last step, which is to say the words out loud and have them sound just right.
But then because you have to do all this, when you get to the final step, something strange has happened to you and you speak the way a drunk walks. And, because you are speaking like falling, it's as if you are an idiot, when the truth is that it's the language and the whole process that's messed up. And then the problem with those who speak only English is this: they don't know how to listen; they are busy looking at your falling instead of paying attention to what you are saying.”
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

NoViolet Bulawayo
“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

Vita Sackville-West
“Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude.”
Vita Sackville-West, Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Virginia Woolf
“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Vita Sackville-West
“Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.”
Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

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