Belisa Miller

“Your schooling is your voice, child. It will be speaking for you even if you didn’t open your mouth to talk. It will be speaking till the day God is calling you come.” That day, I tell myself that even if I am not getting anything in this life, I will go to school. I will finish my primary and secondary and university schooling and become teacher because I don’t just want to be having any kind voice . . . I want a louding voice.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?"
"I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter

“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche