A Portrait of Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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Learning From Memory Is a Very Immigrant Idea
The night erant household i grew up in was like, do it right. If you must stop, better learn for it quickly, cause you're not going to get another chance. I lost my native euruba tongue, and in doing so, severed a personal link to my homeland. From that moment, i moved through the world as if i was trespassing,. never certain of my place, and always feeling asif i was an impostor. You've said that i didn't speak english well when i finally conquered th language, it came at a price. And again, memory is unreliable, so i have these like moments why see just poverty, just abject poverty.
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