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“When will we wake, when will we see, the real oppressors' hypocrisy?”

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“They call us forgotten. Dust in the breeze. But how do you forget the roots of the trees?”

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“We are Kush. We are Meroë. But they won’t teach you this in school. They won’t name the ancient rule, They won’t tell you how far we reached. Only how little we’re allowed to teach.”

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“We are not myth. We are the math and the original path. They speak of Egypt, forget our kings. They show you Giza, hide Meroë’s crown. Where two hundred pyramids still look down.”

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“I am Sudan. And I do not beg. I carry warriors in my legs. I walk like a prophecy. I light like a flame. I was never small, just wrongly named. In every land, I stand tall. You cannot exile what built it all.”

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“Often, refugees think the worst is over as they arrive at their new homes, only to find new struggles emerges under a different sun.”

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“A border does not make one holy. A passport does not make one pure.”

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“Hate can be unlearned; love can be spread.”

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“And when the TV wasn’t on, I’d hear music. Usher’s voice filled the room. His love song carried me far away from the tiny space I called home. I’d sing along to My Boo and close my eyes. Imagining a life where love was kind and safe. Where I was free.”

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