“I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
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“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”
― Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
― Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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