"Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again."

“There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done with that. So I tried working on other people's projects, but didn't find any where I felt I could learn what I needed to learn.”

Source : "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

“The only way through death is death itself.”

Source : Christin Lore Weber (1997). “Circle of Mysteries: The Women's Rosary Book”, p.134, Yes International Publishers

“At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.”

“None love the messenger who brings bad news.”

“In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.”

“God is teaching you a Lesson of Victory.”

“The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.”

“A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.”

Source : Smiley Blanton (1956). “Love or perish”