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Tope Folarin Quotes

born 1981 United States

Tope Folarin (born 1981) is a Nigerian-American writer.

United States
Novelists
Short story writers

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He’s hitting hard against what the American societal definition of what being a black man is and also a diasporic Nigerian conception of what being a black man is.

The sometimes-negative aspect of growing up in this country without a firm cultural basis is that your entire being becomes predicated on satisfying others. And I discovered that's what I was doing…

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tope Folarin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.