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The need to call this thing “good� and this thing “bad,� this thing “white� and this thing “black,� was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else.
Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.�
how white men smiling just meant more evil was coming with the next wave.
There should be no room in your life for regret. If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?�
“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.�
