Amélie Wen Zhao

Song of Silver, Flame Like Night

This is everything. I feel like people who have been colonized (like my ancestors) can relate to this culturally. 

Teeeeeesha

You carry their legacies inside you. You see, the Elantians destroyed everything that made the roots of our kingdom: our culture, our education, our families and principles. They wish to take us out on our knees, to subdue us so that we will never lift our heads again. “But what they do not know is that, so long as we live on,  we carry inside us all that they have destroyed. And that is our triumph; that is our rebellion.

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