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"“We watched in disbelief as the hubris and arrogance of the Leader dragged us into war again.”
Wait... is this fucking play about us?" — Apr 06, 2026 05:46PM
"“We watched in disbelief as the hubris and arrogance of the Leader dragged us into war again.”
Wait... is this fucking play about us?" — Apr 06, 2026 05:46PM
Long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoleague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, in the parish of Goleen, West
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“Babylon was the government that had outlawed them, the police that had pummeled and killed them. Babylon was the church that damned them to hellfire. It was the state's boot at the throat, the politician's pistol in the gut. The crown's whips at the back. Babylon was the sinister and violent forces born of western ideology, colonialism, and Christianity that led to the centuries-long enslavement and oppression of Black people, and the corruption of Black minds.”
― How to Say Babylon
― How to Say Babylon
“I wrote from real life, and when Northerners advised me it was fiction, I conceited that maybe it was. What did I know—an immigrant, writing in her second tongue? Maybe my life was a fiction.”
― The Man Who Could Move Clouds
― The Man Who Could Move Clouds
“There are moments like this, and here was not the first, when I understood why they wear on us so, why they chain us, beat us, rape us, hate us, and what I understood was that they would never have this, for all their power, their guns, their gold, they could never get to this feeling”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
“What we are certain of is the overwhelming message: in all of his daughters’ dreams, Nono expressly asked for his body to be exhumed. We are to unearth Nono’s remains.”
― The Man Who Could Move Clouds
― The Man Who Could Move Clouds
“Who is here on the shore? Who is watching this shipwreck from the mainland? Is it really just me, no one else? That would suit everyone, but don’t you believe it: I am not here alone on the shore; I’m not alone watching this unending ‘drama at sea’ from a safe distance, night after night.”
― Small Boat
― Small Boat
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