Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire
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“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
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“Aunt Fostalina says when she first came to America she went to school during the day and worked nights at Eliot’s hotels, cleaning hotel rooms together with people from countries like Senegal, Cameroon, Tibet, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and so on. It was like the damn United Nations there, she likes to say.”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
“If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
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