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Mateo Askaripour
“It’s the duty of every man and woman who has achieved some success in life to pass it on, because when we’re gone, what matters most isn’t what we were able to attain but who we were able to help.”
Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck

Yaa Gyasi
“In just that short amount of time, Nana’s addiction had become the sun around which all of our lives revolved. I didn’t want to stare directly at it.”
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi
“The thing is we don't need to change our brains at all. Time does so much of the emptying for us.Live long enough and you'll forget almost everything you thought you'd always remember.”
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi
“Whenever I listened to his friends speak about issues like prison reform, climate change, the opioid epidemic, in the simultaneously intelligent but utterly vacuous way of people who think it's important simply to weigh in, to have an opinion, I would bristle. I would think, What is the point of all of this talk? What problems do we solve by identifying problems, circling them?”
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi
“If I've thought of my mother as callous, and many times I have, then it is important to remember what a callus is: the hardened tissue that forms over a wound.”
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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