Chiseke Chiteta

“All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Why can’t they tell the difference between being Jewish and what the Israeli government did?” I asked Su. “Some people don’t think clearly when they’re angry,”
― Ayşe Kulin, Without a Country

“Racism is exhausting and embarrassing, even in front of your best friend, who’s also Black. It’s as if there’s a stealth undercurrent of unwarranted assumptions, petty slights, and dismissals always ready to pop up and reinforce the idea that people of color aren’t good enough, they aren’t welcome.”
― Wanda M. Morris, All Her Little Secrets

“I leaped headlong into the Sea and thereby became better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore and…took tea and comfortable advice.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery