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The Desert Year
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Wole Soyinka
“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
Wole Soyinka

Edward W. Said
“We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)”
Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

Oscar Wilde
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
Oscar Wilde

Walt Whitman
“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.”
Walt Whitman

Henry David Thoreau
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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