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Yaa Gyasi

“The need to call this thing “good” and this thing “bad,” this thing “white” and this thing “black,” was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else.”

Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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Homegoing Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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