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You had to know the facts if you were ever going to find the solutions.

— Tsitsi Dangarembga Nervous Conditions (1988)

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I have seen enough to know that blame does not come in neatly packaged parcels.

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Keening. I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needless of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.

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