Namwali Serpell quotes

I probably seem quite at ease now saying I'm mixed race, I'm black, I'm Zambian, but for a while that was quite torturous, quite angsty. As a young woman I wasn't very tender or nice to myself...Now I'm older, I'm much more able to be tender and kind to the younger me that I see in the book. (Namwali Serpell)
...It's a very interesting position to be in as an immigrant to the United States - now a citizen - who grew up in a country where the word immigrant meant people who were coming into Zambia, not people who were leaving, fleeing as refugees to go to the West... View quote
Namwali Serpell