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Rumaan Alam
American • Author
63
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Collected Meditations
Showing 63 quotesI didn't know, at 22, that everything that happens to you, the good stuff as well as the less-good stuff, accrues and becomes your life.— Rumaan Alam
Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.— Rumaan Alam
Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it often results in tortured metaphors.— Rumaan Alam