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“The power came from translating understanding into belief, from standing so firmly in one’s knowledge of the world that the knowledge itself became an armor—and a weapon.”

Indeed

“You have water, but need Eyes,” he said to the Blind Man. Then he looked at Asilah. “You have Eyes, but need iron. And I…” He looked down at the sand, ashamed of how young and foolish he’d been. “… I have iron, but need water.”
“And yet all of us,” the Blind Man said, “are from the same place.”
“The City of Lies,” Asilah said.”

Epic!!!!

The ajungo’s got to every city and fucked everything up like white colonizers!!!

“Maybe. But he couldn’t ignore the fact that no child who went looking for water had ever returned.”

AHHHHHHHHH

“Different cities, same name,” she said. Then her eyes narrowed. “Same enemy.”

I like it

“Your mama” I’m so unserious bro something bad happened in the book and I’m here giggling over a your mama joke

“It was a twofold price, a price of blood and a price of history: an untongued people cannot tell their story.
But neither can the dead.”

True