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"The land cannot be owned. We cannot give him any land because the land does not belong to the living."

— Yvonne Vera

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Fumbatha could never be the beginning or end of all her yearning.

Butterfly Burning (1998)

The work is not their own: it is summoned. The time is not theirs: it is seized. The ordeal is their own.

Butterfly Burning (1998)

"I always need to be anchored in such a way that I am inside a character."

How can words be made still [in writing], without turning into silence? Silence is more to be feared than the agitation of voices.

If not freedom then rhythm.

Butterfly Burning (1998)

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