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“Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I know now that these conquerors, like many before them, & no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.”
~ Laila Lalami, ‘The Moor’s Account.’
#Painting, ‘Aïda, a Moorish Maid’ by John Lavery, 1908