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Mfoniso Udofia Quotes

Mfoniso Udofia is a Nigerian-American playwright, storyteller, actor, and educator known for her acclaimed nine-play Ufot Family Cycle, which explores the experiences of Nigerian immigrants and their descendants in the United States.

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Immigrants are the most imaginative people because they leave everything to create a new everything.

There is this thought that you cannot be African and gay.

I am not willing to decenter queer narratives from my work.

It needed to have one form of art that I could do in my home and know it was just for me.

I have seen joy. I have seen pain. I have seen fortitude of spirit.

I started out writing one. I started off real regular. It was one play.

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