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Over 100 quotes from the novel We Need New Names as well as a short list of themes found within the novel.

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Quotes: Zim Chapters

Chapters 1-10:

“kaka”

“real person in a real place”

“Country Game”

“country-country”

“crammed”

Aunt Fostalina “will look after me”

“my America”

“my aunt”

“DestroyedMichigan”

“Somebody told Fat Mangena here that Chinese is our national language now”

“We didn’t eat this morning”

“Everybody wants to be the USA”

“Africa for Africans”

“She sings it wrong because she doesn’t know all the English”

“He is afraid of running into a big word”

“You pathetic, fatally miscalculated biological blunder”

“Nobody can cure it so it just does as it pleases - killing killing killing like a
madman hacking unripe sugarcane with a machete.”

“Such rage is nothing, it does not count. It is just a big, terrible dog with no
teeth.”

“If Messenger were to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible
Wound…”

, “Took a shovel and dug everything out”

“Chipo’s stomach”

“The streets to spit and tell us to go back where we came from”

“Pink camera dangles from her neck”

“He has no birth certificate”

“Lobels bread”

“She went to the border”

“He never writes, never sends us money, never nothing”

“Do you want to go steal guavas?”

“Who wants to be in a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart?”

“Coming would mean they are choosers”

“Tears wiped away by strange lands”

“This is for real”

“Blak Power”

“Big big mall”

“Matching bling hang around their necks like nooses”

“Lying there under Prophet Revelations Bitchington Mborro”

“I don’t go to school anymore”

“Playing draughts”

“Crammed together like loaves of hot bread”

“To make them normal”

“Only way to kill the hunger”
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