A Quote by Alexandra Fuller

Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled in my limbic system.

Alexandra Fuller

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Alexandra Fuller
English - Author
Born: 1969

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Petina Gappah

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Larry McMurtry

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Sadie Jones

When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

I have always found it curious that Americans consider Roots' an American story. I first watched it growing up in Zimbabwe, and I naturally saw it as an African story.

Rege-Jean Page

I'm happy with being white. I'm fine with being white. I feel zero shame whatsoever in being white.

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Kurt Braunohler

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Kourtney Kardashian

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