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Authors and book titles that won an award.
“Going Down Home With Daddy” by Kelly Starling Lyons and Daniel Minter | “Daddy Speaks Love” by Leah Henderson and E. B. Lewis
Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino.
“I colonized the colonizer’s space of authority. I made myself free in chains and held that courtroom captive to my freedom.” – Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa.
“Even if you had the words, you could never tell me. You don’t know your own heart, men. Even when you are speaking with it in your hand.”
-Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories.
“It would be a marvelous opportunity, she said sarcastically to forget. To forget who you were, what you were and why you were that. The process, she said was called assimilation…” – Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
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