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I am not oppressed simply because I have, thank God, been spared the causes of oppression: poverty, war, destitution, abuse, illness and ignorance.

— Leila Aboulela Restraint? Sure. Oppression? Hardly." article (2007)

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She had not been in a real home for a long time.

The Translator (1999)

I find myself excited about reading African historical fiction more than other genres because it feels to me that this is actually new and exciting.

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Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise.

River Spirit (2023)

One mother could look after twelve children and decades later these twelve adults would fidget and struggle to look after that one mother.

Bird Summons (2019)

The blow, inevitable in itself, comes straight from the source without any intermediaries.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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