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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that and, at the same time, to say that feminism is not the western invention, that my great-grandmother in what is now south-western Nigeria is feminist.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of race.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020