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I was stained by failure.
You deserve to take up space.
I must have been an annoying child.
Stories matter. Many stories matter.
Your life belongs to you and you alone.
To choose to write is to reject silence.
Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.
The higher you go, the fewer women there are.
I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.
Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
Culture does not make people. People make culture.
The only reason race matters is because of racism.
Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.
There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.
You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.
I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America
I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.
I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.
Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.
This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.
If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.
I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.
Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.
For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.
One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.
Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.
There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.
When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.
I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.
I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.
You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.