Shrutel

“The Asante had power from capturing slaves. The Fante had protection from trading them. If the girl could not shake his hand, then surely she could never touch her own.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“How could he explain to Marjorie that what he wanted to capture with his project was the feeling of time, of having been a part of something that stretched so far back, was so impossibly large, that it was easy to forget that she, and he, and everyone else, existed in it—not apart from it, but inside of it.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“Those who had been determined to stay on the fence found themselves without a fence at all.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“His father had a deep-seated hatred of white people. A hatred like a bag filled with stones, one stone for every year racial injustice continued to be the norm in America. He still carried the bag.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing