All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.

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.

Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

Stories matter. Many stories matter.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

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