Chigozie Obioma Quotes

He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine-inches deep into the beams of our minds.

Chigozie Obioma

Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.

Chigozie Obioma

I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

Chigozie Obioma

English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.

Chigozie Obioma

That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.

Chigozie Obioma