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Book: Purple Hibiscus
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  1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Purple Hibiscus

    It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was different for Jaja and me. We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't.
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  2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Purple Hibiscus

    The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?
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  3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Purple Hibiscus

    We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.
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