I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and … - Kola Boof

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They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a people protection agency. And they're out there trying to do their job and do the science.

Kola Boof

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

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The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth. . . she is the only flower on earth. . . that grows unwatered.

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While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

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I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

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I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D. C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.

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