This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It affects them directly. But I'm really not interested in writing explicitly about that. I'm really interested in human beings, and in love, and in family. Somehow, politics comes in.

I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

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

Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.