there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.
“The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ”
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“And the burqa, [Mariam] learned to her surprise, was also comforting... She no longer worried that people knew, with a single glance, all the shameful secrets of her past.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism—the founding of a state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft.”
― An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
― An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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