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“Despite the honor of being remembered as the first colonist to set foot on Deanna, he was also credited with discovering crabby-grass, the aforementioned life-form that disliked being stepped on. However, this also led to the unintended consequence that Mr Lupini also set the record for being the first person to actually swear on Deanna. He still lived on Deanna, and attended the Founder’s Day Ceremony every year, in safety boots. Not surprisingly, the bronze Lupini didn’t look very amused. Beside the representation of Lupini, stood Deanna’s national bird. It was supposed to be a symbol of the early colonists’ determination to stay and make a success of the colony, but its expression only made it look slightly constipated.”
― Dead Man's Hammer
― Dead Man's Hammer
“Yapo mambo mabaya, na yapo mambo mazuri, ambayo wakoloni walituletea. Chukua mazuri, acha mabaya.”
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“The girl was particularly indignant --not only about this watchman but about all the other people all over India. She said they were all dirty and dishonest. She had a very pretty, open, English face but when she said that it became mean and clenched, and I realised that the longer she stayed in India the more her face would become like that.”
― Heat and Dust
― Heat and Dust
“Here was a remarkable admission of Jamaican weakness, as well as a revealing disclosure that the sugar gentry were as afraid of an idea as they were of knives.”
― Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
― Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
“No correlation exists between sugar and nutritional benefit. Its presence in food assures the tongue that energy and protein reside within, but sweet foods deliver a benign-tasting venom. A crowning irony of the sugar-slave symbiosis was that it was not fatal just to Africans; it could also be fatal to their masters.”
― Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
― Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
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