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Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?

Chris Cleave

There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Differences Mean Two
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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Girl Looks Stories
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
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Country Horror Suffering
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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Events Memories Wwii
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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Brave Easy Sometimes
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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Clouds Girl Summer
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar

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