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Arinze Ifeakandu Quotes

born 1970 Nigeria

Arinze Ifeakandu is a Nigerian writer known for the collection of his short stories, God's Children Are Little Broken Things, which won the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize US and Canada, and was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize, the Lambda Awards, and received the Story Prize's Spotlight Award.

Nigeria
Fiction writers
Novelists

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Language is an aspect of characterization, I think. We code-switch in order to feel safe or to communicate more effectively or to flex, or intimidate.

I believed that our ruling class was largely responsible, by entrenching such avoidable hardship, for much of the intimate fractures around us.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arinze Ifeakandu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.