“Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.” LongEyeRunningMorningModernEvidenceAdvantageWake UpTwentiesInjusticeBrandsDramaticLong RunsEvery MorningRapidsBattlefieldsInhumanityHandicapsDramatic Change Book:This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One Source: This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One
“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.” IfsWorldEyeFireFeetModernMinesHigherTwentiesPairsWhat IfHeritageFifteenFencePatchesStalkingRoguesProcessionStiltsPatch Up Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.” PeopleWarLosesModernSightTwentiesPressesStrikesShouldersCaliforniaNovelistsKillersButtonsPakistanCorpsesRocketsDronesInsidious Author:Teju Cole