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Dangerous women show up sometimes, they disturb something

— Yewande Omotoso

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The pieces of life, even when put together, assembled, never amount to the life itself.

She understood what perhaps they are only just learning. That if you attempt to clean the messiness of life you end up scrubbing the life away from living. We can't excise joy from pain.

Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning.

Identity is complex. I love being a Nigerian, I love belonging to that identity even if my belonging is complex, due to my multiple identities and migratory life experience

Many of the women on the island of my birth are like this. Their bow tongues launch arrows into the world and never miss their mark

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