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.

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

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.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.