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A man like me does not spend money before it is made or earned. Even hatched chicks must grow before they are eaten or sold.

— Obari Gomba

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It is the writer’s job to see politics clearly and to interrogate society. If writing does not challenge abusive politics, then writing is complicit

Women are victims of many of the atrocities in the world. Many perpetrators of violence see women as easy targets.

I would rather be a famous and rich writer than an unknown and poor one. Every writer is at liberty to make that choice or any other choice

You know that literature does not exist in a vacuum. There is a two-way exchange between literature and society that allows the former to bear the burden of our collective memory.

Defeat is that default system, structured as a kind of political panopticon, regardless of the different temperaments of those brothers. The situation is quite familiar to us. Every human being is born into active or ongoing politics.

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