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“Typical Igbo psychology; men never do wrong, only the women; they have to beg for forgiveness, because they are bought, paid for and must remain like that, silent, obedient slaves.”
― Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen

“...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

“It’s funny, really, because what my mum dislikes in my brother is what my brother dislikes in my mum, but neither of them can see they’re arguing with themselves.”
― Jessica George, Maame

“Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior?”
― Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen