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I suppose it’s the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else’s tragedy. Though it is true, too, that sometimes it's hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.

— Chinelo Okparanta

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Love - the greatest connection to humanity when everything else is falling apart.

With a man, life is difficult. Without a man, life is even more difficult.

The fact that the Bible says [homosexuality is] bad is all the reason you need. Besides, how can people be fruitful and multiply if they carry on in that way?

Under the Udala Trees (2015)

Hardly have I finished speaking the words, and she vanishes, the way that people sometimes do, even from our minds.

In all the ways he can love you, I promise to love you better. I suppose it's the way we are, humans that we are.

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