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I always feel guilty around sick people because there is nothing I can do for them.

If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.

If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn't remember their names.

Look at them leaving in droves, arm in arm with loss and lost, look at hem leaving in droves.

Further and further we go, and the sun keeps ironing us and ironing us and ironing us.

You want Change, today we'll show you Change!
Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

We're hungry but we're together and we're at home and everything is sweeter than dessert.

It's not the lying itself that makes me feel bad but the fact that I'm here lying to my friends.

Look at that drum of a stomach, it's like he has swallowed a country.

And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.

And the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet.

Why do you want to see her thing? Don't you have yours to look at if you really want to see one?

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me.

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.

He doesn't tell Aunt Fostalina she looks good, like I've heard other people do; he tells her she looks like sunrise.

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.

Leaving your country is like dying, and when you come back you are like a ghost returning to earth, roaming around with missing gaze in your eyes

Okay, A as in apple - Not apple. A as in anus, it's a different sound.

When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

Sometimes I don't even bother coming up with proper words for conversation. It's not necessary; some people are content to just talk to themselves.