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“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…

“Her trick is to make him think that he is king of the bush, but what does a king matter? Really, she is king…

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“How could he explain to Marjorie that he wasn’t supposed to be here? Alive. Free. That the fact that he had been born, that…

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“Yaw wasn't certain that he believed in forgiveness. He heard the word most on the few days he went to the white man's church with Edward and Mrs. Boahen and sometimes with Esther, and so it had begun to seem to him like a word the white men brought with them when they first came to Africa. A trick their…

“I’m too old to go to America now. Too old for revolution, too. Besides, if we go to the white man for school, we…

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“If she slept, she would do so only lightly, dipping the ladle of sleep into the shallow pool of dreamland”

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“If God was why, then Asamoah was yes and yes again.”

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“Aunty, they say that you make impossible things possible.” She laughed again. “Eh, but they say that about Anansi, about Nyame, about the white…

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“And in my village we have a saying about separated sisters. They are like a woman and her reflection, doomed to stay on opposite…

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“Loneliness, maybe. Or aloneness. The way I don’t fit here or there.”

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“if we go to the white man for school, we will just learn the way the white man wants us to learn. We will…

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“On the first day of the second term, Yaw watched the new students amble in. They were always well-behaved children, these boys, having been handpicked for their brightness or their wealth in order to attend school, learn the white man’s book. In the walkways, on the way to his classroom, they would be so boisterous that it was possible to…

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“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so delicate that it must be nourished and cared for that it might be fulfilled. Alien to the world, it had to live where it could not be at home; avid for tenderness and quiet, it had…

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Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the…

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