How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder Quotes

“You want me to perform culture in a certain way. To tell you a story a certain way. To tell you about stinky lunches and how hard it was to be us. When I think it must be hard to be you. Your culture so vague.”
― Nina McConigley, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

“You have to acknowledge wrongdoing, or it will never heal.”
― Nina McConigley, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

“The snow holds the pulp of winter: lost mittens”
― Nina McConigley, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

“you’re wondering what the big deal is…It’s brownness. It’s being the Other. It’s having to perform. It’s”
― Nina McConigley, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

“Magical realism and/or the uncanny. Being of color is uncanny. Why do we need any more? You will always be exotic. Your skin a mystery. Your presence unsettling.”
― Nina McConigley, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder