47 Quotes by Laila Lalami

  • Author Laila Lalami
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    Of all the contracts I had signed, this was perhaps the only one that my father could never have imagined me signing, for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father’s name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures.

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    Race, it turns out, is above all a politically useful fiction.

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