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“My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping.”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
“Then I swim deep inside the river of my soul, find the key from where it is sitting, full of rust, at the bottom of the river, and open the lock. I kneel down beside my bed, close my eyes, turn myself into a cup, and pour the memory out of me.”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
“I want to ask, to scream, why are the women in Nigeria seem to be suffering for everything more than the men?”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
“Not his-story. My own will be called her-story.”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
“That day, I tell myself that even if I am not getting anything in this life, I will go to school. I will finish my primary and secondary and university schooling and become teacher because I don’t just want to be having any kind voice... I want a louding voice.”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
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