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The flames were like the agents of Allah, nonjudgmental in their incinerating and, finally, yes, releasing.
nothing that happened around this book was random or insignificant. Not even the fact that she was carrying it.
spirits and djinn always linger when there is something to linger for.”
Allah is great, but the ancestors are always watching.”
His mother had once told him that only half of them were actually blood relatives, but none of that really mattered; uncles were uncles.
Failing after making it all the way to America was a disgrace.
They seem to want to destroy all things that are about knowledge, history, and free thought.”
They want to erase the history of our people. They want to erase our ancestors. Wipe them all away and replace them with the memory of the Arab. It is a false jihad against the genius of the black African. It is not Islam at all.”
As he’d described how, especially in the last three years, a woman was expected to wear the burka, agree to all her husband said, and forgo an education, he’d felt a little self-conscious about his culture for the first time in his life.
Power must always be guarded. If not in your lifetime, then later.
“It’s black because it is so full of words, there is no space untouched.”
