Silvia Romano

“Erano vecchi, storpi, malati, ciechi. Abbandonati dagli altri ma sempre legati alla vita, come ogni animale. Osservando quei musi sofferenti, illuminandoli con una lampada che avevo preso, pensavo a Dio; a quanto potesse essere crudele farci combattere per qualcosa che alla fine ci viene tolta.”
― Bernardo Zannoni, I miei stupidi intenti

“Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun