Auma's Long Run Quotes

“I had never fully understood our tradition- why women wailed so loudly and for so long after someone died. It was only now I realized that women wailed more on account of everything they never had a chance to say. All the questions they never asked. All the times we never really talked about the things that mattered most.
It was the one time that women could be angry. Be loud. Say anything. Yell. Purge the soul. And no one thought less of them. Everyone expected it.”
― Eucabeth A. Odhiambo, Auma's Long Run

“I won't let you down, Mama. I won't let myself down.”
― Eucabeth A. Odhiambo, Auma's Long Run