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“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it now: This is not who we are. This is not what we’re about.” I inched across the table. “We can’t let this stand, Dalton. We can’t let the whole world think this is the sum total of what we’ve got to offer,”
― Crossing the Lines
― Crossing the Lines
“that they’ll die poor if they never visit the Smokey Mountains,”
― Crossing the Lines
― Crossing the Lines
“Grandpa says that once a lion gets a taste for human blood, it won’t stop until it’s eaten an entire village.”
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“Your parents are weirdos, in the best possible way. They do not celebrate birthdays; never in your life have you received a present on the tenth of December. Instead, you are given books on the days that their authors were born.”
― Ajax Penumbra 1969
― Ajax Penumbra 1969
“The Arabs from Zanzibar convinced them to become Muslim, then recruited them to capture our Chewa people and put us into bondage. They raided our villages, killed our men, then sent our women and children across the lake in boats. Once there, the slaves were shackled by the neck and made to march across Tanzania. This took three months. Once they reached the ocean, most of them were dead. Later on, the Yao captured and traded us to the Portuguese in exchange for guns, gold, and salt.”
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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