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"My relationship with God can get very personal. I recognize the gifts he has given me, so I'm not starting from zero."

"Everything frightened me, to be honest. But I couldn't escape or look away."

"I always thought we immigrants need to be bolder in our fiction, to go deeper, to touch the architecture and infrastructure and many other things Hollywood doesn't show you about America."

"It's a gift to write like that."

"I wanted a character that could carry the burden of all the things I wanted to talk about—the Biafran War, tribalism in Nigeria, racism in America, especially racism in American publishing."

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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