"Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a……" — Michael Ondaatje

"Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds."

— Michael Ondaatje

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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
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