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I think it’s become clear to people what my motivation is. I am not simply anti-government, and I’m not in opposition to any one person; I want to write about all the things that I think are making us into an unkind society…

— Petina Gappah

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Source: On her motivations as a writer in “Petina Gappah: ‘I want to write about what makes us into an unkind society’” in The Guardian (2016 Nov 13)
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