"While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to."

“Look at that wonderful moonlight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home.”

“Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.”

“I use music as a medium to talk to people.”

“Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.”

Source : "Arizona Effort to Block Contraception Simply Bad Health Policy" by Richard H. Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

“We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.”

“I'm proud of my sexuality.”

“Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.”

“I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.”

Source : Toronto Star, November 11, 2010.