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“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
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“If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.”
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― Breath, Eyes, Memory
“Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.”
― Americanah
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