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Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. Me, I’ve got books. Characters. For as long I can remember, books have been my safe place. I read about places I can barely imagine
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“When I tell you all shall be well, I don’t mean that life won’t bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“It’s always a marvel when one’s pain doesn’t settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“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
“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
“I think every pain in this world wants to be witnessed.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
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