That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?
I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.
The only reason race matters is because of racism.
Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future.
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.
There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
Your life belongs to you and you alone.
You can’t write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
I was stained by failure.
Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I’m Jamaican or I’m Ghanaian. America doesn’t care.
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.
Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
And it’s wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It’s possible to love something and still condescend to it.
Why did people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.