Niku Letang

“Why did you just leave? If its your country you have to love it to live in it and not leave it. You have to fight for it no mater what, to make it right. Tell me, do you abandon your house because it's burning or do you find water to put out the fire? And if you leave it burning, do you expect the flames to turn into water and put themselves out?”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“Is it love, or is it convenience?... She explained that connivence, habit, comfort, obligation- these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“We stayed, like prisoners, only we chose to be prisoners and we loved our prison; it was not a bad prison. And when things only got worse in our country, we pulled our shackles even tighter and said "We are not leaving America, no, we are not leaving.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“Women must be "covered up" to protect men. I find this deeply dehumanizing because it reduces women to mere props used to manage the appetites of men.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions