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“After Mboya, Kenya’s official languages: English, Kiswahili, and Silence. There was also memory.”

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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“Words. They had the strength to shut doors that would never be opened in this lifetime.”

Ayaana would learn that there seemed to be no absolutes in the world, only codes and questions and a guarantee of storms.

“Is it not magical how so full a list becomes so empty in so short a time?”

“Being human is a rare art; it is not given to all equally.”

“Music and painting bandaged soul-holes.”

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Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

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To live in hearts we leave behind
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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

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