13 quotes
You must do good for other peoples, even if you are not well, even if the whole world around you is not well.
The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020)
“In our land, a sad wife is better than a happy woman with no husband.”
And So I Roar (2024)
I don’t want to write trauma for trauma’s sake. I want to write it in a way that leads to empathy. To action.
Not his-story. My own will be called her-story.
The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020)
Write your truth, Ms. Tia say. Your truth.
The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020)
She open her eyes, give me a sad smile. “I wish I am a man, but I am not, so I do the next thing I can do. I marry a man.”
The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020)
I feel a free that I didn't feel in long time. And when I smile, it climb from inside my stomach and spread itself on my teeth.
The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020)
We all be speaking different because we all are having different growing-up life, but we can all be understanding each other if we just take the time to listen well.
The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020)
When you get up every day, I want you to remind yourself that tomorrow will be better than today. That you are a person of value. That you are important.
The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020)
Now I know that speaking good English is not the measure of intelligent mind and sharp brain. English is only a language, like Yoruba and Igbo and Hausa. Nothing about it is so special, nothing about it makes anybody have sense.
The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020)
It’s so heartbreaking that we’re killing talent. We’re killing intelligence. We’re killing future leaders. We’re killing brains, inventors. We’re killing so much by not allowing these girls to be educated.
Kike picks up her basket, sets it on her head, leaves it to balance by itself. The girls in our village learn how to do this from when they are first growing two teeth. They know how to use every part of their body to work so that their hand can be free to do even more work.
And So I Roar (2024)
Trees, they die dead like people too. They need care too. The earth around us needs care. We come from earth, we eat from earth, and one day we must go back to earth, so why are we treating it so bad?
And So I Roar (2024)