4 quotes found
“I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.”
“I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.”
“I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.”
“That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.”
