Is a lie still a lieif you say it pretty?

Everyone has a story to tell. But the story of your life is only yours and it's uniqueness makes it a real one.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

He can transform the incapability in you to do what the capables, even together, cannot do.

I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.

I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.

Cath wished she didn't use the word "just" so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.