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# A Question of Power

A Question of Power (1974) by Bessie Head In this fast-paced, semi-autobiographical novel, Head exposes the complicated life of Elizabeth, whose reality is intermingled with nightmarish dreams and hallucinations. Like the author, Elizabeth was conceived out-of-wedlock; her mother was white and her father black—a union outlawed in apartheid South Africa. Elizabeth eventually leaves with her young son to live in Botswana, a country less oppressed by colonial domination, where she finds stability for herself and her son by working on an experimental farm.
* It is when you cry, in the blackest hour of despair, that you stumble on a source of goodness.”
** Part 1, Page 34
* When someone says 'my people' with a specific stress on the blackness of those people, they are after kingdoms and permanently child-like slaves. 'The people' are never going to rise above the status of 'the people'. They are going to be told what is good for them by the 'mother' and the 'father'.
** Page 63
* When people stumble upon magic they study it very closely, because all living people are, at heart, amateur scientists and inventors. Why must racialists make an exemption of the black man? Why must she come here and help the black man with a special approach: ha, ha, ha, you're never going to come up to our level of civilisation?
** Page 83
* The victim is really the most flexible, the most free person on earth. He doesn't have to think up endless laws and endless falsehoods. His jailer does that. His jailer creates the chains and the oppression. He is merely presented with it. He is presented with a thousand and one hells to live through, and he usually lives through them all.
** Page 84
* Who is the greater man - the man who cries, broken by anguish, or his scoffing, mocking, jeering oppressor?
** Page 84
* 'God isn't a magical formula for me,' ... 'God isn't a switched-on, mysterious, unknown current. I can turn to and, by doing so, feel secure in my own nobility.
** Page 85
* Love is so powerful, it's like unseen flowers under your feet as you walk.
** Page 86
* You don't realize the point at which you become evil.
** Page 96

## External links

* Wikisource — Name of Book or Play
* Waveland
* supersummary
* freduagyeman
# Aké: The Years of Childhood

Ake: The Years of Childhood is a 1981 memior by Wole Soyinka. The novel captures Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a[ [Yoruba]] village in western Nigeria called Aké.

## Quotes

* Things do not always happen as one plans. There are many disappointments in life. There is always the unexpected. You plan carefully, you decide on one step after another, and then...well, that is life. We are not God. So you see, one cannot afford to be weighed down by the unexpected. You will find that only determination will bring one through, sheer determination. And faith in God. Don't ever neglect your prayers....
* Yes, you know damned well what you should have done if you sincerely desired their surrender. You could have dropped it [the atom bomb] on one of their mountains, even in the sea, anywhere they could see what would happen if they persisted in the war, but you chose instead to drop it on peopled cities. I know you, the white mentality: Japanese, Chinese, Africans, we are all subhuman. You would drop an atom bomb on Abeokuta or any of your colonies if it suited you
* Wild Christian shushed him, but I saw no difference in both their attitudes. I was overwhelmed by only one fact- there was neither justice nor logic in the world of grown-ups
* It is time to commence the mental shifts for admittance to yet another irrational world of adults and their discipline
* Change was impossible to predict. A tempo, a mood would have settled over the house, over guests, relations, casual visitors, poor relations, 'cousins,' strays – all recognized within a tangible pattern of feeling – and then it would happen!
** This quote captures the unpredictability of change in his childhood environment
# The Man Died

The Man Died is a 1972 non-fiction book by Nigerian Playwright Wole Soyinka that explores Soyinka's experiences in prison during the Nigerian Civil war. In 1984, a Nigerian court banned the book. In 2011, The Guardian included The Man Died on their list so of the 100 greatest non-fiction books.

## Quotes

* The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny
** The Man Died (New York: Harper & Row, 1972) p. 13.
* Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.
** Soyinka reflects on the power of literature and writing against authoritarian regimes
* Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away
** This quote illustrates the inevitable nature of truth
* For me, justice is the first condition of humanity.
** Soyinka emphasizes the fundamental importance of justice in society​
* The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism
** This quote highlights the crucial role of criticism in maintaining freedom
* I have always held the view that when you have that situation, you must refuse to be part of it
** This quote speaks to the importance of personal integrity and resistance
* A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces
** Soyinka uses this analogy to convey the essence of true power and action​.
# SOMA (video game)

SOMA is a 2015 science fiction horror game developed by Frictional Games, creators of the Amnesia series. It deals with Simon, a young Canadian car crash survivor who wakes up after a brain scan and finds himself in a post-apocalyptic future.

## Simon

* You know what sucks about dying? The crash. Everything up till now. The brain damage, you guys, everything— it has made my life so much more real. I started thinking about all the things I was going to do. I'd never been more excited to be alive! All that hope... wasted.
* I woke up this morning… 100 years ago.
* Indians used to think cameras would steal their souls.
* Catherine… please don’t leave me alone…

## Catherine

* I never felt that comfortable being human in the first place. This isn't much worse.
* Just reviving a dead person doesn't seem to work that well. A robot body seems to make people a bit... unreliable. You are the best of both worlds. A sound mind in a sound body.
* [Final lines] It's okay, Simon. Everything's all right now.

## Sarah

* [Last words] Don't let them die, okay? Send them out there. To the stars.

## Johan Ross

* Where is the line drawn for what is human and what is not? Would walking corpses do? Would a group of machines thinking they're human be acceptable? We can't trust a machine to know, to understand what it means to be.

## Hopper

* The sky is pitch black with smoke. The ocean is dark, incredibly dark. In the distance I can see land. According to navigation - it's Lisbon and the coast of Portugal.
* It's on fire. Everything is on fire. The flames, they're reaching all the way into the sky. It's unreal. [...] Nothing but a massive firestorm covering the continent.

## Neil Tsiolkovsky

* You should try spending some time in the abyss sweetheart, you know when shit's for real.

## Terry Akers

* My reflection in the black blood of our Warden whispers. I need to save them from this hell. I need to let them sleep. Lock them in their lucid dreams I've seen.

## Dialogue

    Simon: So my mind is covering it up; pretending nothing is different.
    Catherine: If it didn't you probably would be incapable to interact with the world at all, and the stress would either kill you or make you go insane.
# Stay with Me

Stay with Me is a novel written by Nigerian author Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀. It was first published in 2017, by Canongate Books in the UK and subsequently by Alfred A. Knopf in the US. The story centers around Yejide and Akinleye and their struggles with infertility and societal pressure.

## Quotes

* If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But when it’s in a thousand pieces around your feed, that doesn’t mean it’s no longer love.
* Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world when we are gone.
* So love is like a test, but in what sense? To what end? Who was carrying out the test? But I think I did believe that love had immense power to unearth all that was good in us, refine us and reveal to us the better versions of ourselves.
* Before you call the snail a weakling, tie your house to your back and carry it around for a week
* I understand how a word others use every day can become something whispered in the dark to soothe a wound that just won't heal. I remember thinking I would never hear it spoken without unravelling a little, wondering if I would ever get to say it in the light. So I recognise the gift in this simple pronouncement, the promise of a beginning in this one word.
* OK, we'll tell her you dug the grave." It's the truth - stretch, but still true. Besides, what would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits, without those better versions of ourselves that we present as the only ones that exist?
* The reasons why we do the things we do will not always be the ones that others will remember. Sometimes
* I loved Yejide from the very first moment. No doubt about that. But there are things even love can’t do. Before I got married, I believed love could do anything. I learned soon enough that it couldn’t bear the weight of four years without children. If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it’s in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn’t mean it’s no longer love.
# GraceLand

GraceLand is a 2004 novel by Chris Abani, which tells the story of a teenager named Elvis, who is trying to get out of the ghettos of Lagos, Nigeria. Chris Abani depicts the poverty and violence in Lagos and how it affects the everyday lives of Elvis and his family.
“What work, sir? I have a job.” “Dancing is no job. We all dance in de bar on Saturday. Open dis bloody door!” Sunday shouted.
the third world is separated virtually only by the lagoon.
# Beyond the Horizon (novel)

Beyond the Horizon is a debut novel by Ghanaian author Amma Darko. The English version was first released on 1 March 1995.

## Quotes

* … this ministries man, he is not only a bad man and bad husband, he has also got something inside his head. I only hope that he won’t destroy you with it before you too start seeing red with your eyes like I do.
** p. 17
* what African man gets angry because his wife was carrying a baby? And the first baby at that.
** Mara wondering why her husband is not happy for her being pregnant
* He was lying on the mattress, face up, looking thoughtfully at the ceiling when I entered. Cool, composed and authoritative, he indicated with a pat of his hand on the space beside him that I should lie down beside him. I did so, more out of apprehension of starting another fight than anything else. Wordlessly, he stripped off my clothes, stripped off his trousers, turned my back to him and entered me. Then he ordered me off the mattress to go and lay on my mat because he wanted to sleep alone.
** p. 22
* .....Akobi beat me a lot at home, yes, but somehow I identified beatings like this with home. That African men also beat their wives in Europe somehow didn’t fit into my glorious picture of European life.
** p. 73
* At first I didn’t understand, because here, we hear always that African people are hard workers and love work because God made them specially for the hard work of the world…
** p. 99
* Why couldn’t I take control of my own life, since after all, I was virtually husbandless and, what did my husband care about a woman’s virtue? If I was sleeping with men and charging them for it, it was me giving myself to them. The body being used and misused belonged to me.
** p. 118
* You were green then, Mara. Totally green. And I was also in love with Osey then. And I did what Osey ordered me to do. I was his property then, Mara. I love him. Mara. I really did.
** p. 129
** Vivian talking about Mara's husband intention of bringing her to Germany
* My husband brings me from home to a foreign land and puts me in a brothel to work, and what money I make, he uses to pay the rent on his lover’s apartment, to renovate a house for her in village back home. I came to Gerhardt expecting the worst, but this was even worse than I had conceived of.
** p. 137-138
** Mara's conversation with Gitte and Vivian
* After all, I was also party to it all even if involuntarily. And I guess that my punishment for it is that I am stuck with Oves for the rest of my life. I have decided to stop thinking about ever going home. I just don’t belong there any longer.
** p. 139
* Your life is your road, Mara. God puts you at the start of this road and propels you to walk on, and only He knows where your road will end, but it is the road He choose for you and you must walk it with gratefulness because it’s the best for you.
** Mara's mother telling her the beginning of her journey
* I have decided to stop thinking about ever going home. I just don’t belong there any longer.
** Exacting her vengeance on her abusers and prisoners

## External links

* African Book Addict
# His only wife

Template:Mergto His only wife is a fictional novel by Peace Adzo Medie, a liberian-born Ghanian writer. The novel captures the story of Afi Tekple, a young seamstress whose life trajectory is going downwards and gets a life-changing opportunity to marry into a wealthy family.

## Quotes

* It takes strength to walk away from someone you love.
** Speaking on the needed strength to walk with a loved one
* Please, put love aside and be practical. Love will not put food on the table; it won’t hold you at night.
** Speaking on being practical about the subject of love
* A person who talks so freely about her own life will talk just as freely about yours.
** Speaking on trusting whom you share life issues with.
* If there was one thing I agreed with my mother on, it was that one could never be sure about a person’s intentions, no matter how kind that person seemed.
** Speaking on not knowing the intentions men no matter how kind they are.
* not everyone who smiles with you wishes you well,
** Speaking on not being deceived by the the smiles of men
* I have to fight for what I want, for what's mine.
** Speaking on fighting for your desires
* I knew that even though we were surrounded by a large family, we had nobody
** Speaking on family issues and support
* How can I be a good wife with no husband by my side?
** Speaking on being a good wife without a husband.
* Marriage shouldn’t be a never-ending competition where you spend your life fighting to be seen and chosen.
** Speaking on the ease of marriage.
* I said to love with your head but I’m also the first person to tell you that it is hard to live like that. It is brutal and it eats at you every day and leaves you empty
** Speaking on the difficulty of loving with your head.
# The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician

The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician is a novel written by Zimbabwean writer Tendai Huchu published in 2014 by Amabooks Publishers and republished by Parthian Books in 2015. The novel captures the struggles of three men with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love as they attempt to find a place for themselves in Britain.

## Quotes

* Something about the elderly altered the character of a place, civilized it, creating a bridge between past and present, a sense of continuity across generations.
* But if there's one thing I've learnt in the last few years, it's that everyone needs a story. That's all our lives amount to, nothing but stories that we hope will live on after we are gone.
* Such a strange and haunting debut! Attia's spellbinding sentences and wonderful characters draw you into a story unlike any other. This is an author to watch
* The thing is, every time I go back, I feel more and more like a stranger. The lingo's changed, the bearer notes have more zeros, the whole vibe, the way people do things is completely different.
** Farai, the mathematician, describes his experiences whenever he visits his girlfriend.
* They think we come from the jungle. They think we have kangaroo courts. They will say, 'How can you practice law here when you couldn't even preserve the rule of law in your own country ?'
** An elderly magistrate recounting the thoughts of men.
* The Magistrate mapped the city through the music he listened to, each song a landmark in the labyrinth of his mind.
** The practice of the magistrate mapping the city with his mind.
* The Maestro often wondered if he was retreating into madness or finding solace in the silence of his books.
** The Maestro's behavioral concerns.
# The Famished Road

The Famished Road (1991) by Ben Okri a Nigerian author is a novel, the first book in a trilogy that continues with Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches (1998). The Famished Road follows Azaro, an abiku, or spirit child, living in an unnamed African (most likely Nigerian) city.
# My son's story

My son's story (1990) by Nadine Gordimer tells the tale of a family torn apart by illicit love, political struggle and Apartheid. Sonny, an educated schoolteacher classed by South African law as Coloured, is slowly drawn into the struggle against the white regime. Unable to share this struggle with his family, he has an affair with the one person with whom he can talk, a white social worker. Unbeknownst to him, his family discovers the affair and are themselves drawn into the fight against Apartheid. Their lives were, in Gordimer's words, "determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the struggle against numbing cold.

## Quotes

* odd in-between period which sometimes inserts itself into historical time when not only the later historians but the actors and witnesses, the living themselves, become aware of an interval in time which is altogether determined by things that are no longer and by things that are not yet. In history, these intervals have shown more than once that they may contain the moment of truth.
** Page 9.
* “[T]he isotopy of fragmentation constitutes a unifying web structurally present at the level of story, text, and narration”
** Page 28.
* despite the fact that the narrative demonstrates that the voice of the ‘other’ can be heard and imagined, Gordimer’s attitude toward her own whiteness […] is resentful and hostile”
** Page 71.
* propos[ed] a future South Africa, not only on terms of equality of races but of sexes, too”
** Page 123
* She reminds me of pig. Our ancestors didn't eat pig.
** Sonny's thoughts juxtaposed.
* What had Aila done to assuage his anguish at Baby's attempt to end her life before it had begun? Nothing. Silence. Silence upon the other silence. Comfort and understanding he had had to find elsewhere.
** Sonny reveals a major reason for his alienation from Aila.
* It was my mother who had talked under interrogation. I know why she did. It was to be sure neither her husband nor I would be held responsible.
** Will refers to his father as his mother's husband

## External links

* — My son's story
* santoss test banks
* enotes
# The House Gun

The House Gun (1998) by Nadine Gordimer A young man from an upper-middle-class family shoots and kills a housemate. As his case moves towards trial, his parents grapple with how this could have happened and with conflicting emotions towards him and each other..

## Quotes

* a swarthy man (Italian or jew?) with a scarred grin, and eyes, one dark-brilliant, one blurred blind, from whom radiant vitality comes impudently since he is gesticulating with a stump in place of one arm
** page 135
* Something terrible happened
** page 3
* Someone’s been shot. He’s arrested. Duncan
** page 4
* That kind of act isn’t in the range of emotional control in which their son’s character was formed, or the contemporary ethic that men don’t own women. Therefore the act could not have been committed
** page 31
* someone must be to blame. If Duncan says he’s guilty
** page 66
* I have the feeling you’re in some way suspicious of me. You’re trying to … get me to explain, because I’m his mother. I ought to know, I should know why.And I’m his mother. I ought to know!
** page 51
* Whatever happens to him, whatever he has done … he can come to us. There’s nothing you cannot tell us… . We’re always there for you. Always
** page 69
* had not been able to tell them anything that was leading him towards that Friday night when something terrible happened to him
** page 159.
* Duncan found her and took her to hospital. He brought her back to life. Literally. She owes her life to Duncan; or she blames him
* page 113
* She would have drowned herself long ago if she had not met me… . She doesn’t do that because, perhaps, I am more dreadful
** page 47
* Discovery is not an end. Only a new mystery
** page 120
* two creatures caught in the headlights of catastrophe. Nothing between Duncan and the judge, passing sentence, but Motsamai and his confidence
** page 128
* Oh dear, I’m sorry, Bra[brother] and Duncan remembers that “it was exactly the manner, the words, with which the man had announced the end of the months they had lived as lovers
** page 155
* nobody’s business but mine
** page 195
* in whom self-control has been strongly established since childhood”, and that the evening of the murder was no exception
** page 200
* in to a state of dissociation from reason and reality
** pp. 228, 202
* cannot distinguish which Duncan is being described in truth
** p. 205
* It is not in his nature. Never. I swear on my own life
** page 225
* disgust, a disintegration of everything ** page 211
* trying to explain, so that I could put—things—together again, understand myself
** page 211
* I suddenly picked up the gun on the table. And then he was quiet
** p. 214
* Whether or not harmful intention was premeditated, when the accused picked up the gun … was he in a state of automatism in which … there was total loss of control?
** page 264-265
* bring death and life together
** page 294
* the purpose of [whose] life is to defend the body against the violence of pain
** page 13

## External links

* Goodreads
* archive
* Encyclopedia
* JSTOR
# The Book of Phoenix

The Book of Phoenix is a 2015 science fantasy novel by Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor. It is a stand alone prequel to Who Fears Death, it won the 2018 Kurd Laßwitz Preis for Best Foreign Fiction Book and was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

## Quotes

* To know someone's pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.
** Pain
* I speak my life into existence with each expressed breath I take. I tell you a story within which are more stories. Universes within universes. We are all spinning like small suns. I am like my own sun.
** Speaking into one's life
* I love books . I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas . I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.
** How important book is

## External links

* Goodreads
# The Goldbergs (Season 10)

    Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Main
The Goldbergs (2013–present) is an American long-running sitcom aired on ABC.

## Season 10
### That's a Schwartz Man [10.2]

    Adult Adam: [voiceover] And so, Mr. Glascott went to see if he could figure out what was really going on in my mom's heart.