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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English...?
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Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
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However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
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I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.
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Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well— here is the truth— you have to talk yourself out of it.
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly.
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Born:
May 14, 1973
(age 50)
Bio:
Chris Cleave is a British writer and journalist.
Known for:
The Other Hand (2008)
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (2016)
Incendiary (2005)
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