The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them. - Jamaica Kincaid

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison and murder each other, how to govern badly, and how to take the wealth of our country and place it in Swiss bank accounts? Have you ever wondered why it is that all we seem to have learned from you is how to corrupt our societies and how to be tyrants? You will have to accept that this is mostly your fault. Let me just show you how you looked to us. You came. You took things that were not yours, and you did not even, for appearances’ sake, ask first

I didn’t really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn’t see how it was possible not to like me!