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Behind every book ban, behind every threat to immigrants being able to speak out is a larger argument being made: that these stories shouldn’t be heard, that these experiences shouldn’t be talked about, they shouldn’t be written about, they shouldn’t be said

— Dinaw Mengestu

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There’s a certain restlessness that comes just from what you have

It’s important to acknowledge all parts of your heritage in the story.

Of course I’m a good liar—I’m a fiction writer. I could tell you anything.

The value of the culture itself is under threat once it’s away from home, in migration, and once it’s in the Western context where other values begin to sort of dominate

I still see more hope and potential in Africa than I do despair, and I say that after having seen it at its very worst

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