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If there is one country’s sense of national identity and literature that should be broad enough and expansive enough to allow for a multitude inside of that, it should be America

— 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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