“I crave to get enough insights from political pundits and social-cultural analysts in America, as to how this stunning novelty materialized.” -Sunny Ayewanu
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“I am convinced that what we are seeing is something seen before: these angry flailings are dangerous and frightening, but they are death throes, not signs of rebirth.” -South African writer Tony Eprile on the parallels between Trump’s rise to power and the end of apartheid in South Africa
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“By adding to, subtracting from, and reinterpreting the original, the translator implies that he knows better than the original text knows, that in effect his mind is superior to its mind.” -Clayton Eshleman
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“The Earth–this atom lost in the universe–is much too small to hold all this hate and racism.” – Osama Alomar
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Turkish writer Aslı Erdogan was taken into custody on August 17, 2016 and has been imprisoned at Bakirkoy Closed Prison For Women since August 19.
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“As islanders, we know how attentive we have to be to signs when a cyclone approaches.” -Shenaz Patel
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“We’re a nation of dreamers, all of us.” -Adriana Ramirez, winner of the 2015 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writer’s Prize.
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