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"I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination."
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"In every bad situation we have to see Satan's motives behind a person's actions."
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"For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU."
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Personal Development
"We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists."
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"Lend an ear to your inner voice and intuition."
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Personal Development
"One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect."
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Personal Development
"By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU."
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"The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection."
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"Most people who possess life in reality, do not quite understand what they possess."
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Personal Development
"I understand your actions more than your conversations."
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Personal Development
"Self-knowledge is the greatest kind of knowledge."
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"You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They'll believe all kinds of shit about Africa."
Society
"The Red Cross irritated Ugwu, the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour."
Awareness
"She cries quietly, her shoulders heaving up and down, not the kind of loud sobbing that the women Chika knows do, the kind that screams Hold me and comfort me because I cannot deal with this alone. The woman's crying is private, as though she is carrying out a necessary ritual that involves no one else."
Grief
"I am just as human as the man."
Humanity
"A father is as much a verb as a mother."
Relationship
"A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much."
Society
"Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much."
Leadership
"Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable."
Society
"Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?"
Forgiveness
"Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away."
Emotion
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