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Leave Your Mess at Home

by Tolani Akinola (Goodreads Author)

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— Apr 14, 2026 11:36PM

Apr 14, 2026 11:35PM

“They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sigh and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember it. They will be surprised when I say you are the only man I have ever loved.”
― Chimeka Garricks, A Broken People's Playlist

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“Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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“The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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“They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sign and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember it. They will be surprised when I say you are the only man I have ever loved.”
― Chimeka Garricks, A Broken People's Playlist

tags: love, short-story-writing

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“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
― James Baldwin

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