There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.

Don't eat till you're full, eat till you're tired.

Love emancipates you from prison of envy and jealousyIt makes u invisible to hatred and oblivious of self

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

Well, you've got to take the bitter with the better.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.