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Chika Unigwe Quotes

born 1974 Nigeria

Chika Nina Unigwe (born 12 June 1974) is a Nigerian born Igbo author who writes in English and Dutch. In April 2014 she was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature.

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People who are quick to pay compliments, baby-baby, are also quick to withdraw them.

Night Dancer (2011)

You children, you forget that no matter how high the okra tree grows, it's never mightier than the hand that planted it.

Night Dancer (2011)

No matter the size of your husband's penis, no other woman should know it.

Night Dancer (2011)

Determination makes one impervious to pain.

Night Dancer (2011)

It is not the thing that we fear the most that crushes us but that which we have failed to fear.

Night Dancer (2011)

Never give up if your heart and your head tell you are right. People can disappoint you, but your heart and your head will never. Make them your best friends.

On black sisters street (2007)

A parent never apologises, even if he regrets his actions. It is the child who should apologise.

Night Dancer (2011)

Life is like a set of false teeth. The world sees what you show it: Clean teeth wey white like Colgate. But you know for inside dat your real teet' don rot finish!

On black sisters street (2007)

Blood is thicker than water, you hear. Ha! Let me tell you, some blood flows thinner. And some water is as thick as sludge.

Night Dancer (2011)

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