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Dr. Collier
Zeituni is one of the Old Man’s sisters and Barack’s aunt. She’s a beloved part of the Old Man’s extended family of former wives and sisters living in Nairobi and Alego. As a child, she was Onyango’s favorite, but she tells Barack that Onyango was still just as strict with her as he was with everyone else.
Zeituni Quotes in Dreams from My Father
The Dreams from My Father quotes below are all either spoken by Zeituni or refer to Zeituni. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 15
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I let my eyes wander over the scene—the well-worn furniture, the two-year-old calendar, the fading photographs, the blue ceramic cherubs that sat on linen doilies. It was just like the apartments in Altgeld, I realized. The same chain of mothers and daughters and children. The same noise of gossip and TV. The perpetual motion of cooking and cleaning and nursing hurts large and small. The same absence of men.
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Zeituni Quotes in Dreams from My Father
The Dreams from My Father quotes below are all either spoken by Zeituni or refer to Zeituni. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 15
Quotes
I let my eyes wander over the scene—the well-worn furniture, the two-year-old calendar, the fading photographs, the blue ceramic cherubs that sat on linen doilies. It was just like the apartments in Altgeld, I realized. The same chain of mothers and daughters and children. The same noise of gossip and TV. The perpetual motion of cooking and cleaning and nursing hurts large and small. The same absence of men.
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