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Without literature, we don’t actually have free expression

— 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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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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