Lata

“ബീജം ഏറ്റുവാങ്ങുന്ന ഗര്‍ഭപാത്രങ്ങള്‍, വിത്തുവിതയ്ക്കാന്‍ മാത്രമായ വയലുകള്‍, പിന്നെ എന്തെല്ലാം! നിങ്ങള്‍ ഈ സ്ത്രീയെ കണ്ടില്ല.എന്‍റെ അമ്മയെ!”
― M.T. Vasudevan Nair, രണ്ടാമൂഴം | Randamoozham

“No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“Prayer was not a sacred or holy thing. It was not spoken plainly, in Twi or English. It need not be performed on the knees or with folded palms. For Akua, prayer was a frenzied chant, a language for those desires of the heart that even the mind did not recognize were there.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and experience for ourselves. We must rely upon the words of others. Those who were there in the olden days, they told stories to the children so that the children would know, so that the children could tell stories to their children. And so on, and so on.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing