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“...but if your heart is open, she thought with a sigh, it doesn't matter how smart you are, how cautious, whether you move so fast, if you're weak or strong, how good. If you leave the door open, someone's going to find their way in”
― Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife

“The Dubai of Africa is happening.” “What is here? What is happening? Property speculation will ruin everyone.” “The oil price is up. We have a new president. It’s a good time. We are the sleeping giant of Africa, soon to awake like Sleeping Beauty.”
― Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife

“One thing she did know was the greatest book on human psychology is the Bible. If you were lazy and did not wish to work, or if you had failed to make your way in society, you could always say, 'My kingdom is not of this world.' If you were a jet-set woman who believed in sleeping around, VD or no VD, you could always say Mary Magdalene had no husband, but didn't she wash the feet of Our Lord? Wasn't she the first person to see our risen saviour? If, in the other hand, you believed in the inferiority of the blacks, you could always say, 'Slaves, obey your masters.' It is a mysterious book, one of the greatest of all books, if not the greatest. Hasn't it got all the answers?”
― Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen

“Okuko si na ya anaghi eti ka egbe ji ya haa ya; kama na ya na-eti ka oha nuru olu ya. The chicken carried away by a hawk says that it is crying not so that the thing carrying it will let it go, but so that the public will hear its voice and be witness.”
― Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance