I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

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.

Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.