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Warsan Shire
“give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
Warsan Shire

Hilary Mantel
“Fabre looked up, his mobile face composed. "Good-bye," he said. "Georges-Jacques--study law. Law is a weapon.”
Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
tags: law

Catherynne M. Valente
“The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.”
Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
“The present predicaments of Africa are often not a matter of personal choice: they arise from a historical situation. Their solutions are not so much a matter of personal decision as that of a fundamental social transformation of the structures of our societies starting with a real break with imperialism and its internal ruling allies. Imperialism and its comprador alliances in Africa can never develop the continent.”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
“Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and a carrier of culture”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo

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