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Moon Tiger
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The driver, who clearly regards Claudia as his special responsibility, says, ‘Don’t worry, miss, we’ll get you there.’ ‘I’m not worried,’ says Claudia, who is not. She takes the cover off her typewriter and sits in the cab of the truck,
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“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
“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
“[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.”
― 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
“If you are stealing something it’s better if it’s small and hideable or something you can eat quickly and be done with, like guavas. This way, people can’t see you with the thing to be reminded that you are a shameless thief and that you stole it from them, so I don’t know what the white people were trying to do in the first place, stealing not just a tiny piece but a whole country. Who can ever forget you stole something like that?”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
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