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Onyeka Onwenu Quotes

1952–2024 Nigeria

Onyeka Onwenu (31 January 1952 – 30 July 2024) was a Nigerian singer and songwriter, actress, human right activist, social activist, journalist, politician, and former X Factor series judge. Dubbed the "Elegant Stallion" by the Nigerian press, she was a former chairperson of the Imo State Council for Arts and Culture.

Nigeria
Actresses
Philanthropists
Singer-songwriters

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“I was targeted and abused for being an Igbo woman who came to give jobs to and elevate my people while sidelining them.”

“The example of her life was a teaching tool because she showed that she could stand as a woman on her own…be a contributing member of the community.”

“I probably would have been somewhere buying and selling like every other woman who is trying to survive. If I didn’t have education, it would still have been the same thing. I can buy and sell at all levels, considerably.”

“Politics must not be left in the hands of notorious people or the mediocre. We must bring our best into it and no one has a right to complain if one refuses to get into politics, and some other people ventured into it and make laws that will affect your generation yet unborn.”

“Small minds, narrow minds can’t comprehend a great spirit when they see it. When they insist in stereotyping you, even when the evidence is there, look at them carefully, they are lacking some sort of professionalism.”

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