The East African
Thursday January 14 2021
Summary
Language is beautiful: it dances, it is integral to forming ideas and it is also on occasion inadequate to forming ideas such as how does one sell a piece?
Maybe passion is the thing. The passion for knowledge of all kinds is what forms the foundation of thinking and by extension writing.
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My grandfather used to tell me stories, and my aunts and grandmothers did too. I didn’t always understand them, but I understood the underlying lessons: the cadence of language, turn of phrase, warmth, surprise, horror, and silence.
Many people bought me books and withstood the lifelong barrage of questions I brought to them. My father was the first person to say to me: “I don’t know; why don’t you find out?” And I guess it stuck.
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