I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

I never said I love you because I knew he would understand it differently. I loved him, and I still do, but it was as a chapter. It wasn’t as a fairytale ending.

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.