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1 " You children, you forget that no matter how high the okra tree grows, it's never mightier than the hand that planted it. "
― Chika Unigwe , Night Dancer
2 " Never give up if your heart and your head tell you are right. People can disappoint you, but your heart and your head will never. Make them your best friends. "
― Chika Unigwe , On Black Sisters Street
3 " A parent never apologises, even if he regrets his actions. It is the child who should apologise. "
4 " Sometimes in life, we have to take a stand. It does not help to sit on the fence, even if we have to hurt the people we love-love. That is what I want you to remember. If I have taught you anything, I want it to be that. "
5 " Obi loved her. But duty was duty. It was as simple as that. She ought to understand. Duty was often stronger than love. "
6 " No matter the size of your husband's penis, no other woman should know it. "
7 " But sometimes, it is not the thing that we fear most that crushes us but that which we have forgotten to fear. "
8 " Mijnheer, vergeeft u me, maar vandaag wil ik niet spreken. "
― Chika Unigwe , De zwarte messias
9 " S is for sins. What is a sin? At Catechism, she was taught to repeat, 'Sin is an offence against reason, truth and right conscience.' But she could not tell what sins she was supposed to be atoning for. What were her mother's sins? Mma swallowed all the words she wanted to say and started eating the food she no longer tasted. "
10 " S is for sir. It's what you called your father if you'd never lived with him. If you did not know where his medication box was. If you did not even know what he was taking medication for. No, sir. Yes, sir. S is for strangers multiplied by five. Ten eyes watching her, sizing her up, maybe wondering what she was doing there. What was she doing here? And all this talk of tradition, which had pushed her mother away in the first place. Roll. Dip. Swallow. She had met her father. "
― Chika Unigwe
11 " There is no Muslim Nigeria and no Christian Nigeria. There is only one indivisible Nigeria. Kaduna belongs to all Nigerians. No religion endorses violence or gratuitous cruelty. Regrettably, some undesirable elements have incited these ugly clashes and those elements will be fished out and properly punished. "
12 " Love-love nonsense never does anyone any good "
13 " If my mother could, she would pick up the shards of my shattered life and cut me with them "
14 " People who are quick to pay compliments, baby-baby, are also quick to withdraw them "
15 " Shoes. Stranger. Strange. Her mother's shoes. A stranger's shoes. Her mother was a stranger. She was only finding that out now. It was easier to feel compassion for a stranger than for a strange mother. She was finding that out now, too. But compassion for a stranger who was also her mother was new. "
16 " Blood is thicker than water, you hear. Ha! Let me tell you, some blood flows thinner. And some water is as thick as sludge. "
17 " Her mother sought to see the flaw in everyone, the blemishes, the scars. Mma sought perfection, she saw beauty in everyone. Her mother laughed at the girls who came to see her and Mma was filled with distress, a loathing for her mother who did not seem at all to notice, No. A mother who appeared to delight in her distress.A mother who lived by the rule that men were dispensable. Mma thought them indispensable and was not going to live as her mother lived. Her mother thought she was a fool. 'You fool-fool; men are not worth it. "
18 " She liked the freedom that came with not being anyone's. "
19 " People who are quick to pay compliments, baby-baby, are also quick to withdraw them. But wisdom comes with age. "
20 " It is the dog that eats shit but it is the goat that gets rotten teeth. "
