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Fatima Massaquoi Quotes

1911–1978 Liberia

Fatima Massaquoi-Fahnbulleh (25 December 1911 – 26 November 1978) was a Liberian writer and academic. After completing her education in the United States, she returned to Liberia in 1946, making significant contributions to the cultural and social life of the country.

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There is very much to learn from the United States, if we can scratch the varnish off the surface and take the woodwork that is solid and not rotten.

This vast country has everything good and evil. It has sympathetic men and women, who can be as selfish as they can be kind. There is, in the words of Goethe, much light, but also much shade.

But in spite of all this, freedom here is incomparable; no wonder then that the Negro can be lynched, and yet a Negro can stand and sing My Country Tis of Thee.

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