This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
Culture does not make people. People make culture.
She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.
You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man.
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.