Quotes from Elizabeth Nunez

Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim - Nature abhors a vacuum. Fill their minds with your stories and they will adore you; leave their minds free to roam and they will hatch plans to destroy you (181).

The oppressed are sometimes the most rabid of oppressors (119).

Racism is a poison so insidious it finds its way through the tiniest slit in the soul and does its damage there even before one is aware.