Monique Truong Quote
When they are like this, I remember what the man on the bridge had told me: The French are all right in France. What he meant, he explained, was that when the French are in the colonies they lose their natural inclination toward fraternity, equality, and liberty. They leave those ideals behind in Mother France, leaving them free to treat us like bastards in the land of our birth.
Monique Truong
When they are like this, I remember what the man on the bridge had told me: The French are all right in France. What he meant, he explained, was that when the French are in the colonies they lose their natural inclination toward fraternity, equality, and liberty. They leave those ideals behind in Mother France, leaving them free to treat us like bastards in the land of our birth.
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