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Meena Kandasamy

“I think what you know in a language shows who you are in relation to that language. Not an instance of language shaping your worldview, but its obtuse inverse, where your worldview shapes what parts of the language you pick up. Not just : your language makes you, your language holds you prisoner to a particular way of looking at the world. But also : who you are determines what language you inhabit, the prison-house of your existence permits you only to access and wield some parts of a language.”

Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
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When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
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