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June 14, 2024
My mother told me that I could keep Njogu from punching me if I stopped singing. I never sang again.
He warned me that I should not tell my brothers about dreams like that, and he told me that they beat me up because they were afraid of me.
It giving Joseph and his hating brothers
The biggest tree in the forest is the first one to be cut down. You are a big tree, and if you don’t learn how to interact respectfully with authority, you will be the first one to be cut down.”
“Maybe you have never looked around,” Wash said, “but this is one of the most beautiful places there is. White people like to live in beautiful places.”
“Don’t forget,” he added, “that the only way a black man like you can be anyone in this country is to play basketball. You better listen to me, or I’ll have your ass shipped back to Kenya.”
When the Ewoks started talking, I realized that I could understand them because they were speaking in Kikuyu.
Excuse meeee?!
“a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.”
“Bad things happen to good people, but good people don’t get lost in bad things.
