“If I could look back and appreciate our forefathers, I would thank them for being orderly in burying the same people of the same lineage in one cemetery -Edy kasawuli”

“The lie that crossed our minds that African Gods are small Gods, thank our Gods that they were not refered to as Satan but rather Gods. The truth of the matter is that we have many Gods unlike the colonizer -Edy kasawuli”

“I've come to understand that the Bible was a great story well crafted, written and promoted to change human beings -Edy kasawuli”

“One of the biggest lie is the perception that a back cloth is a satanic fabric. Wake up my black brothers and sisters. It's just an invention made by a genius black man from a mutuba tree -Edy kasawuli”

“I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don't look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can't find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today.”

“The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too.”

“Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break.Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words.Mine was Baba.His was Amir. My name.Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975—and all that followed—was already laid in those first words (11).”

“Your back always
looked small and weak
but we could laugh together
at funny stories.
But if people keep making
the same mistakes over and over
can they really regret them?”

“I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.”

“These people were looking at me for help and there was no way I could turn my back on them”