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.

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

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 do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.