"Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye â€¦ I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.”
“History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.”

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“Music was my coping mechanism. I could place myself outside my body. It humbles you.”

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“Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature.”
“In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more authentically me because I developed it without ever soliciting the advice of anyone else.”

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“I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.”
“All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.”
“I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands-there's none will sting thee, if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too.”

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