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Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Poet

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Ijeoma Umebinyuo is a poet.

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Profession: Poet

About Ijeoma Umebinyuo

[Wikidata] Nigerian poet... | [Wikipedia] Ijeoma Umebinyuo
is a Nigerian-American writer. Her short stories and poems have appeared in publications such as The Stockholm Review of Literature, The Rising Phoenix Review and The MacGuffin. Her TEDx talk was called "Dismantling The Culture of Silence". She has a book of poems called Questions

Quotes by Ijeoma Umebinyuo

“Survive ... Some women survive by creating walls, big walls guarding their hearts and you say "let them in" but she has…

Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Ready for love

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“1. You must let the pain visit. 2. You must allow it teach you 3. You must not allow it overstay. (Three routes to healing)”

Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Healing

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“IRONY They invite you to come view artifacts stolen from your ancestors in their museums as their "experts" explain your ancient Benin…

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African-authors

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“So, here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here. Never enough for both.”

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Abroad

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“Invisible She scanned through the magazine for girls who looked like her with deeper hues, flat nose, and thick hair. The day…

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Accepting yourself

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“I told the priest my god is a black woman he poured holy water on me and scheduled me for an exorcism”

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Black women

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