Ebele Ejiofor

“Books saved you. Having become your refuge, they sustained you. The power of books, this marvelous invention of astute human intelligence. Various signs associated with sound: different sounds that form the word. Juxtaposition of words from which springs the idea, Thought, History, Science, Life. Sole instrument of interrelationships and of culture, unparalleled means of giving and receiving. Books knit generations together in the same continuing effort that leads to progress. They enabled you to better yourself. What society refused you, they granted.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“the part of the brain, physiologically, that allows us to blame everything on people we do not really know is the same part of the brain that allows us to have compassion for strangers”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“In a word, a man's success depends on feminine support.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“The most humble of huts is pleasing when it is clean; the most luxurious setting offers no attraction if it is covered in dust.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter