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“Life is short. Fortune is fleeting. Fame is just swirling dust. It’s people dreaming and perceiving while they say your name like it’s some tangible object, but it’s not. A name is just a name. A sound.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author

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“You don’t fight the ocean. You have to trust it to carry you. And once you do, you can be anything.”

― Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author

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“That was the way of grief, I was realizing. It was a barrage of pain that was so unbearable that it made you numb. And then out of nowhere, something made you feel again and the cycle started over from the beginning”

― Adrienne Young, A Sea of Unspoken Things

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“it wasn’t us, it would have been another regiment,” I said, calmer again. “You can’t stop a country from happening, Good Stab.” “But we were already a nation,” he said up to me. “We didn’t ask you to come.”

― Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

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“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter