A. Igoni Barrett Quotes

#1. Womanhood comes with its peculiar burdens, among them the constant reminder of a subordinate status whose dominant symptom was uninvited sexual attention from men

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#2. Dreams can lose their way and turn up on the wrong side of sleep.

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#3. Who I was as a person was more than what I looked like, but then again, how people saw me was a part of who I was. I

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#4. But love does not mean marriage, a baby, forever. Love means you make me happy until you don't.

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#5. My say is this: when you live in a worldwide bullring, bullshit is what you'll get. If they say I cannot be my mother's son, then it must be that I'm her daughter.

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#6. He knew that so long as the vestiges of his old self remained with him, his new self would never be safe from ridicule and incomprehension.

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#7. And he learnt how it felt to be seen as a freak: exposed to wonder, invisible to comprehension. About

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#8. No one asks to be born, to be black or white or any color in between and yet the identity a person is born into becomes the hardest to explain to the world

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#9. Lagos was built from blood and sweat, and raw ambition. Abuja was designed as a playground for the rich.

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#10. One of the reasons I will never leave Nigeria is because, in this country, anything can happen.

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