Namwali Serpell quotes

I probably seem quite at ease now saying I'm mixed race, I'm black, I'm Zambian, but for a while that was quite torturous, quite angsty. As a young woman I wasn't very tender or nice to myself...Now I'm older, I'm much more able to be tender and kind to the younger me that I see in the book. (Namwali Serpell)
...It's a very interesting position to be in as an immigrant to the United States - now a citizen - who grew up in a country where the word immigrant meant people who were coming into Zambia, not people who were leaving, fleeing as refugees to go to the West... View quote
Namwali Serpell

Namwali Serpell

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Born: 1980
Quotes count: 2
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