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“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“Greatness depends on where you are coming from.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“If this is hatred, then it is very young. I has been caused, simply, by the informal divide-and-rule policies of the British colonial exercise. These policies manipulated the differences between the tribes and ensured that unity would not exist, thereby making the easy governance of such a large country practicable.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“Why do I love him?...I don't think love has a reason...I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
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