Amanda

“...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

“If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?”
― Margaret Atwood, Power Politics: Poems

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta