What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

  • -- A.S. Byatt A.S.拜亚特

文学能够也应该做的是改变那些教那些不读书的人的人。

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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

在过去的四五百年里,欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品,这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕,用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。

Change because you want to. Not because someone else wants you to

因为你想要改变。不是因为别人想让你这么做

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

你必须改变设置,保持领先。

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

文学是奢侈品;小说是必需品。