Yellow Means Stay Quotes

“Once, with the poet, I said I wanted to change my job. He told me to change it. ‘Everything around you will expand and stretch to accommodate it.’ The poet saw the possibility in all things.”
― Allwell Uwazuruike, Yellow Means Stay: An Anthology of Love Stories from Africa

“One who loves you loves you with your dirt African proverb”
― Allwell Uwazuruike, Yellow Means Stay: An Anthology of Love Stories from Africa

“Ibhafidon had said he could not believe his own sister wanted to marry a shylock. This is the derogation Nigerians adopted for the Chinese in the late 2080s. Shylocks—because they had come to collect what they were owed. The country had been hundreds of billions of dollars in debt, and the Chinese had come to claim the collaterals against which those loans were taken. Oil wells and oil fields. Gold mines and steel”
― Allwell Uwazuruike, Yellow Means Stay: An Anthology of Love Stories from Africa

“in his car, he wept, because all his life he’d felt like he was on a journey—a wanderer—and what they now shared felt like a homecoming.”
― Allwell Uwazuruike, Yellow Means Stay: An Anthology of Love Stories from Africa