Isatou Gaye

“But you became aware that you were Igbo because of the white man. The pan-Igbo idea itself came only in the face of white domination. You must see that tribe as it is today is as colonial a product as nation and race.” Professor Ezeka re-crossed his legs.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“The reality is that friendships in adulthood are endangered. Studies show that after thirty, it’s both more challenging to foster new friendships and harder to renegotiate old ones.3 It can feel like you’re stuck between forging new bonds from scratch or feeling beholden to people and patterns you’ve outgrown.”
― Anna Goldfarb, Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections

“This strange paradox of knowing you have close friends but feeling, simultaneously, that you don’t have any close friends is a familiar feeling that encapsulates the entire modern friendship sphere. The”
― Anna Goldfarb, Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections

“know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself ? Why isn’t what you are enough?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun