It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where the flesh was shredded off and the bone gleamed that famed ivory, and...

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception…you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.