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• It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them…
• The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality…
• I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
• Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
• There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be…
• At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels…
• How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
• I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
• About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The…
• Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
• Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
• I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all…

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