The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

Anything a man can do, I can fix.

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.