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Maame
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There’s always going to be something we regret or feel guilty about because no one is the perfect child.”
“But that’s the great contradiction of colonialism.’ Cathy uttered this like a simple matter of fact. ‘It’s built to destroy that which it prizes most.”
― Babel
― Babel
“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Nice comes from the Latin word for “stupid”,’ said Griffin. ‘We do not want to be nice.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“I’d be happy to be born, even for only one day if one day was all I had.”
― Before Your Memory Fades
― Before Your Memory Fades
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