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I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it is always dark and nobody is ever having to see any of the terrible thing that is happening in this world.
Uzodinma Iweala Quotes: I'm walking walking walking to
My father and I look up and then at each other. I can feel my heart separate from the rest of my body. I want to hand it to frothing old man in front of me and say, take it. It's yours, because it has always been yours, if not for your sperm, your food, and the school fees that you pay on my behalf, then who and where would I be? Nothing. I am because you are. I say nothing. Each word I search for flies from my brain before I can send it off my tongue.
Uzodinma Iweala Quotes: My father and I look
Are you lost if you know where you're going-- just not how to get there?
Uzodinma Iweala Quotes: Are you lost if you
I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.
Uzodinma Iweala Quotes: I am fearing because I
I'm still me, I want to say to him, your son, but that would hardly help if I am currently everything wrong with the world.
Uzodinma Iweala Quotes: I'm still me, I want
On the bad days, there is no color. I know there are colors. I can see the colors, but the world looks gray. The sounds are muffled by a crackling web of static that sits behind my eyes and buzzes in my ears.
Uzodinma Iweala Quotes: On the bad days, there
so we were playing all this game then and thinking that to be a soldier was to be the best thing in the world because gun is looking so powerful and the men in movie are looking so powerful and strong when they are killing people,but I am knowing now that to be a soldier is only to be weak and not strong, and to have no food to eat and not to eat whatever you want, and also to have people making you do thing that you are not wanting to do and not to be doing whatever you are wanting which is what they are doing in movie. But I am only knowing this now because I am soldier now.
Uzodinma Iweala Quotes: so we were playing all
I'm late, the kind of late that suggest I have no regard for the emotional health of my Nigerian parents who probably think I've been kidnapped by the enemies of progress.
Uzodinma Iweala Quotes: I'm late, the kind of
You cannot unsee what has been seen once the veil is lifted, Reverend Olumide says in church. We cannot return to the garden of Eden. When I meet with him he says I need to confront my fears, that the devil torments us with that which scares us most. So, I cross the line between the blue hallways tiles and the white locker-room floor and navigate my way to locker umber thirty-two.
Uzodinma Iweala Quotes: You cannot unsee what has
I am remembering the soldier who are coming to my village and I am holding my machete closer. I am liking how it is feeling in my hand, like it is almost part of my body.
Uzodinma Iweala Quotes: I am remembering the soldier
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