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21 " She wanted Azuka to learn the ways of these foreigners, since people ruled over others not because they were better people but because they had better guns; "
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ,
22 " Ikenna, I have come to realize, is a man who carries with him the weight of what could have been. "
23 " He told you that the company he worked for had offered him a few thousand more than the average salary plus stock options because they were desperately trying to look diverse. "
24 " She will listen to BBC radio and hear the accounts of the deaths and the riots - "religious with undertones of ethnic tension" the voice will say. And she will fling the radio to the wall and a fierce red rage will run through her at how it has all been packaged and sanitized and made to fit into so few words, all those bodies. "
25 " There were emotions she wanted to hold in the palm of her hand that were simply no longer there. "
26 " Of course they nurse resentment, as they well should, but it has somehow managed to leave their spirits whole. "
27 " Something about the way Chinedu said his name, Abidemi, made her think of gently pressing on a sore muscle, the kind of self-inflicted ache that is satisfying. "
28 " Some people can take up too much space by simply being, that by existing, some people can stifle others. "
29 " If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our cell has a Chief called General Abacha and he has a second in command. Once you come in, you have to give them some money. If you don't, you're in trouble. "
30 " Like how the government of General Abacha was using its foreign policy to legitimize itself in the eyes of other African countries. "
31 " She sits at the edge of the leather sofa and looks around the living room, remembers the delivery man from Ethan Interiors who changed the lampshade the other day. “You got a great house, ma’am,” he’d said, with that curious American smile that meant he believed he, too, could have something like it someday. It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope. "
32 " Even at ten you knew that some people can take up too much space by simply being, that by existing, some people can stifle others. "
33 " Grace would ponder this story for a long time, with great sadness, and it would cause her to make a clear link between education and dignity, between the hard, obvious things that are printed in books and the soft, subtle things that lodge themselves into the soul. "
34 " A sated belly gave Americans the luxury of praising themselves for being good parents, as if caring for one's child was the exception rather than the rule. "
35 " He thought the police would have to do better; everyone knew the cult boys had more modern guns "
36 " Ukamaka watched him and thought how much more subdued Catholic Masses were in America; how in Nigeria it would have been a vibrant green branch from a mango tree that the priest would dip in a bucket of holy water held by a hurrying, sweating Mass-server; how he would have stridden up and down, splashing and swirling, holy water raining down; how the people would have been drenched; and how, smiling and making the sign of the cross, they would have felt blessed. "
37 " echi eteka, «Mañana está demasiado lejos». Un mordisco, dijo, y en diez minutos se ha acabado todo. "
38 " Es lo que Estados Unidos logra de ti, piensa. Te impone el igualitarismo. Como no tienes a nadie con quien hablar, aparte de tus hijos pequeños, recurres a la criada. Y antes de que te des cuenta es tu amiga. Tu igual. "
39 " Él siempre se esforzaba por ser diferente, incluso cuando no importaba. Era como si actuara en lugar de vivir. "
40 " Esa es la naturaleza de Dios. Si comprendes la idea básica de la naturaleza de Dios es diferente de la humana, entonces todo cobra sentido -dijo Chinedu, y abrió la portezuela para bajarse del coche. "