I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

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

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.