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“this place doesn't look like my America”
“And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.”
“You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!”
“[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybodys, to make him normal.”
“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”
“Running and chanting, the word change in the air like it's something you can grab and put in your mouth and sink your teeth into.”
“Generally the men always tried to appear strong; they walked tall, heads upright, arms steady at the sides, and feet firmly planted like trees. Solid, Jericho walls of men. But when they went out i...”
“I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.”
“And they had nothing, except of course memories, their own, and those passed down by their mothers and mothers' mothers. A nation's memory.”
“That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.”
“When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who a...”
“We are all watching and not knowing what to do because when grown-ups cry, it's not like you can ask them what's wrong, or tell them to shut up; there are just no words for a grown-up's tears.”
“...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet.”
“I am careful not to look anyone in the face because I don't want them to see the shame in my eyes, and I also don't want to see the laughter in theirs.”
“With all this snow, with the sun not there, with the cold and dreariness, this place doesn't look like my America, doesn't even look real. It's like we are in a terrible story, like we're in the cr...”
“If you are stealing something its better if its small and hideable or something you can eat quickly and be done with, like guavas. This way, people cant see you with the thing to be reminded that y...”
“If you are stealing something it’s better if it’s small and hideable or something you can eat quickly and be done with, like guavas. This way, people can’t see you with the thing to be reminded tha...”
