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"Literature creates a space where silence can finally begin to speak."

— Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse Interview with World Literature Today (2023)

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"Writing is my way of resisting forgetting."

Writing Against Oblivion: A Conversation with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse (2022)

"I write from the place where languages meet and where identities are constantly negotiated."

Interview with World Literature Today (2023)

"Survival is not the end of the story; it is the beginning of another responsibility."

Interview with The Markaz Review (2022)

"Language can wound, but it can also become a place of repair."

Interview with World Literature Today (2023)

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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