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If not freedom then rhythm.

— Yvonne Vera Butterfly Burning (1998)

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Fumbatha could never be the beginning or end of all her yearning.

Butterfly Burning (1998)

The work is not their own: it is summoned. The time is not theirs: it is seized. The ordeal is their own.

Butterfly Burning (1998)

"I always need to be anchored in such a way that I am inside a character."

How can words be made still [in writing], without turning into silence? Silence is more to be feared than the agitation of voices.

"The land cannot be owned. We cannot give him any land because the land does not belong to the living."

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