Access Quote by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.”

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What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

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“Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but…

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Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe…

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For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will…

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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those…

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Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

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We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

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“There was a time when slavery was good. It did its work, and when it finished creating capital it withered and died a natural…

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Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So…

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I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

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“As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black…

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Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.

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