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I think writers have a responsibility to hold a mirror up to society. The beauty of writing is the reflection can, and should, come in various forms.

— Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

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I wanted to expose the superiority complex people in the West have concerning Africa.

I wanted to make the point that God works things for good--even when events in life seem random and ridiculous

Stories are inextricable from existence which means your story has incalculable value. It is needed by someone, somewhere, and if you keep at it, at some point you will connect with that someone

I wanted to make the connection that just because a person is born outside the continent, he/she is not "other"

Don’t fall into the trap of feeling sorry for yourself because you haven’t yet got to the stage where you can [pursue your dream] full time

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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