Karalee

“The English are never going to think I'm posh, but if I fit into their fantasy, then they'll at least think I'm royalty.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“But that’s the great contradiction of colonialism.’ Cathy uttered this like a simple matter of fact. ‘It’s built to destroy that which it prizes most.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“It's time that we are uncomfortable, because comfort has been disastrous.”
― Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement