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Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.

— Binyavanga Wainaina One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (2011)

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My laugh is far away inside, like the morning car not starting when the key turns.

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Make sure you show how Africans have music and rhythm deep in their souls, and eat things no other humans eat.

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Science is smaller than music, than the patterns of the body; the large confident world of sound and body gathers. If my mind and body are quickening, lagging behind is a rising anxiety of words.

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Among your characters you must always include The Starving African, who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and waits for the benevolence of the West.

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We fail to trust that we knew ourselves to be possible from the beginning.

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