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My laugh is far away inside, like the morning car not starting when the key turns.
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (2011)
Science is smaller than music, than the patterns of the body; the large confident world of sound and body gathers. If my mind and body are quickening, lagging behind is a rising anxiety of words.
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (2011)
We fail to trust that we knew ourselves to be possible from the beginning.
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (2011)
Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (2011)
There is an ache in my chest today, sweet, searching, and painful, like a tongue that is cut and tingles with sweetness and pain after eating a strong pineapple.
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (2011)
I start to understand why so little good literature is produced in Kenya. The talent is wasted writing donor-funded edutainment and awareness-raising brochures for seven thousand dollars a job. Do not complicate things, and you will be paid well.
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (2011)
It is an aspect of Kenya I am always acutely aware of - and crave, because I don't have it all. My third language, Gikuyu, is nearly non-existent; I can't speak it. It is a phantom limb...
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (2011)