Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 66

We're all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Teach her about difference. Make difference ordinary. Make difference normal. Teach her not to attach value to difference. And the reason for this is not to be fair or to be nice but merely to be human and practical. Because difference is the reality of our world. And by teaching her about difference, you are equipping her to survive in a diverse world. She must know and understand that people walk different paths in the world and that as long as those paths do no harm to others, they are valid paths that she must respect. Teach her that we do not know – we cannot know – everything about life. Both religion and science have spaces for the things we do not know, and it is enough to make peace with that. Teach her never to universalise her own standards or experiences. Teach her that her standards are for her alone, and not for other people. This is the only necessary form of humility: the realisation that difference is normal.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
...above all, let your focus be on remaining a full person. Take time for yourself. Nurture your own needs. Please do not think of it as 'doing it all'. Our culture celebrates the idea of women who are able to 'do it all' but does not question the premise of that praise. I have no interest in the debate about women doing it all because it is a debate that assumes that caregiving and domestic work are singularly female domains, and idea that I strongly reject. Domestic work and caregiving should be gender-neutral, and we should be asking not whether a woman can 'do it all' but how best to support parents in their dual duties at work and at home.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I am a strong and powerful woman.I am proud to be a woman and I celebrate the qualities that I have as a woman.I am not defined by other people’s opinion of who I should be or what I should do as a woman. I determine that, not anyone else.I am not passed up for a position, title, or promotion because I am a woman.I fully deserve all the good things that comes my way.Irrespective of what anyone might think, being a woman places no boundaries or limits on my abilities.I can do anything I set my mind to.I celebrate my womanhood and I am beautiful both inside and out.
Idowu Koyenikan
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.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The assumption that women in hijab are less enlightened or empowered than those rocking daisy dukes is arrogant at best. Feminism should fight for all women to have he right to live as they choose, not for all women to live the same exact lives like we're all in some sort of Sims game.
Luvvie Ajayi
With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.
Helen Oyeyemi
We teach girls shame. Close your legs; cover yourself. We make them feel as though being born female, they're already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up--and this is the worst thing we do to girls--they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.
Chimamamda Ngozi Adichie
Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.
Michael Bassey Johnson
NOTHING IS GREATER THAN ITS SOURCE
Chukwuso Stephen Akachukwu
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.
Teju Cole
An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.
Michael Bassey Johnson
No girl can forget the day she lost her virginity, or the circumstance that led to it
Augustine Sam
Sex was the main component of her thoughts now. But love - and her desperate longing for it - had vanished from her heart like a migraine after a painkiller.
Augustine Sam
Perfect love, like perfect partner does not exist. We create our own perfect love. If you care to know, a a good partner is like a construction engineer. To build the kind of house he want, he must pick the material that best suits his needs and maybe his wallet too.
Augustine Sam
Kukurukuuu,’ our big rooster crowed as usual and it nearly put me off my sleep. My eyes were neither open nor close. In trying to go back to sleep I rolled to both sides on my small wooden bed, covered with a mat. The room was partially dark and warm, sleepless rats busy under my bed in search of food.
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
Idealistic world views should be our focus.
Sunday Adelaja
The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.
Uwem Akpan
Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without children, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without God, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without giving alms, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without wisdom, is he not poor? Then there's a great lack in riches.
Michael Bassey Johnson
...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny. ...of innocence. ...towards scribbling. ...of love lines. ...and of lust. ...to what seems like male. ...to what seems like female. ...in those days. ...I mean nothing. ...but in high school.....even me. ...I can't deny.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Increasingly, the girl child is becoming an endangered specie aspedophiles’ continue to roam free in our societies terrorizingthe lives of our children and stripping them of all the joy andexcitement that comes with childhood.
Oche Otorkpa
Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God
Sunday Adelaja
True children of God experience pleasure in giving.
Sunday Adelaja
The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his children.
Sunday Adelaja
No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose.multiplication of his children, He goes ahead to expatiate on his blessings to us
Sunday Adelaja
Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?
Sunday Adelaja
Twenty good friends cannot live together in twenty good years”. We were more than twenty who left the school and the simple statement was beginning to echo hard in my ear, as if grandma actually had that particular day in mind. Pg.100
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
The feast was seen everywhere and in everything. Some women in semi-dresses were busy doing many things at once. Domestic animals were crying their last, with knives on their throats. They too were celebrating the feast in their own ways.Pg.93
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!
Chinonye J. Chidolue
Remember not to complain about the matter but construct, compose, compass and conquer the matter
Ikechukwu Joseph
when u stay behind ur children their confidence rise
Ikechukwu Joseph
As one attains the age of 18 having fully acquired the basic education, one becomes responsible for whatever decision he makes, whatever opinion he chooses to accept and whatever style of life he chooses to live.Above age 18, the waywardness of a child depends on the child.
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country
Sunday Adelaja
Only redeemed children of God can become redeemers for their people
Sunday Adelaja
Christians need to realize that they are free children of the almighty God
Sunday Adelaja
God’s word guarantees our victory, instead of shame, he gives His children victory
Sunday Adelaja
Miracles are not for grown men, they are for children or unbelievers.
Sunday Adelaja
Miracles are not for matured men, they are for children or for unbelievers.
Sunday Adelaja
If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men who fish at shallow waters can never have enough fish to feed their family talk less of a nation or a generation
Olojo Daniel Olatunji
Only those who ignore d sea waves&tides to fish in deep waters can have abundance of fishes to feed their generation.
Olojo Daniel Olatunji
In life, you don't lose;you learn.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
When you get wisdom, failure and discouragement will get behind you.
Sunday Adelaja
Wisdom justifies a person in the face of any opposition
Sunday Adelaja
If a person has wisdom, then he will also have the anointing. But sometimes a person with theanointing may not have much wisdom.
Sunday Adelaja
The future of the Church is in the hands of wisdom
Sunday Adelaja
In order to reach his destiny and have dominion over the earth, man has to get wisdom.
Sunday Adelaja
Wisdom dwells in the heart of God.
Sunday Adelaja
The first step towards obtaining wisdom is to acknowledge the sovereignty and authority of God and to be subject wholly to His will.
Sunday Adelaja
The more the Word of God abides in a person, the more strength and wisdom he will have.
Sunday Adelaja