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101 " Do you usually decide what answers you will believe before you do an interview? "
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Half of a Yellow Sun
102 " Olanna gently placed a pillow beneath her head and sat thinking about how a single act could reverberate over time and space and leave stains that could never be washed off. "
103 " sat thinking about how a single act could reverberate over time and space and leave stains that could never be washed off. "
104 " Beautiful people are not usually loners. "
105 " —El abuelo solía decir que todo empeora y luego mejora. O dikata njo, o dikwa mma —comentó Kainene. "
106 " —Ejima m, ¿qué ocurre? —volvió a preguntar.—En realidad, nada. Nada que sea nuevo —contestó Olanna, con la mirada fija en la botella de coñac sobre la mesa—. Quiero que esta guerra acabe para que él pueda volver. Se ha convertido en otra persona.—Todos estamos en esta guerra, y nos toca a nosotros decidir si nos convertimos o no en otra persona —dijo Kainene. "
107 " ¿Es amor esta necesidad irracional de tenerte junto a mí la mayor parte del tiempo? ¿Es amor la seguridad que siento durante los silencios que compartimos? ¿Lo es esta sensación de pertenencia, esta plenitud? "
108 " ...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came. "
109 " If this is hatred, then it is very young. I has been caused, simply, by the informal divide-and-rule policies of the British colonial exercise. These policies manipulated the differences between the tribes and ensured that unity would not exist, thereby making the easy governance of such a large country practicable. "
110 " Oh, my God,’ she said, between sobs. ‘Oh, my God.’Olanna reached out often to squeeze her arm. The rawness of Edna’s grief made her helpless, brought the urge to stretch her hand into the past and reverse history. Finally, Edna fell asleep. Olanna gently placed a pillow beneath her head and sat thinking about how a single act could reverberate over time and space and leave stains that could never be washed off. She thought about how ephemeral life was, about not choosing misery. She would move back to Odenigbo’s house. "
111 " How much did one know of the true feelings of those who did not have a voice? "
112 " The moon was always a brilliant white, and once in a while the night wind brought the hooting of owls and the rise and fall of voices from the refugee camp. Baby slept on a mat with Olanna’s wrapper over her to keep the mosquitoes away. "
113 " My name is not Sah. Call me Odenigbo.''Yes, sah.''Odenigbo will always be my name. Sir is arbitrary. You could be the sir tomorrow. "
114 " languorous "
115 " Richard knew his type. He was like President Nixon’s fact finders from Washington or Prime Minister Wilson’s commission members from London who arrived with their firm protein tablets and their firmer conclusions: that Nigeria was not bombing civilians, that the starvation was overflogged, that all was as well as it should be in the war. "
116 " Ugwu le dio las gracias, negó con la cabeza y comprendió que jamás sería capaz de aprehender a aquel niño en papel, que jamás sería capaz de describir lo bastante bien el miedo mortal que empañaba los ojos de las madres en el campo de refugiados cuando los bombarderos aparecían en el cielo. Jamás sería capaz de definir lo funesto de bombardear a personas hambrientas. "
117 " Ugwu fumbled, awkwardly, for something to say. ‘Are you still writing your book, sah?’‘No.’‘”The World Was Silent When We Died”. It is a good title.’‘Yes, it is. It came from something Colonel Madu said once.’Richard paused. ‘The war isn’t my story to tell, really.’Ugwu nodded. He had never thought that it was. "
118 " ... but perhaps Richard could do a piece on the human angle? Did they mutter any tribal incantations while they did the killings, for example? Did they eat body parts like they did in the Congo? Was there a way of trying truly to understand the minds of these people? "
119 " We are all in this war and it is up to us to decide to become somebody else or not ... "
120 " Well, the British have just decided to control immigration from the Commonwealth, haven’t they? They want people to stay in their own countries. The irony, of course, is that we in the Commonwealth can’t control the British moving to our countries. "