Jenaia Johnson

“... I hold her two hands tight until she slacks herself and closes her eyes, until she accepts that sometimes even the strongest of people can suffer a weakness.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

“Now I know that speaking good English is not the measure of intelligent mind and sharp brain. English is only a language.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

“Anything they give me, I collect it, because I like to teach those childrens. I like the way their eyes be always so bright, their voices so sharp, when I say "A is for what?" and they say, "A is for apple, AH-AH-APPLE," even though nobody is every seeing any apple with our two naked eyes except for inside the tee-vee.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

“A day will come when my voice will sound so loud all over Nigeria and the world of it, when I will be able to make a way for other girls to have their own louding voice, because I know that when I finish my education, I will find a way to help them to go to school.

A day will come when I will become a teacher...

... because it is true , the future is always working, always busy unfolding better things, and even if it doesn't seem so sometimes, we have hope of it.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice