Top 84 Nigerian Quotes
#2. I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.
Toks Olagundoye
#3. I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.
Uzo Aduba
#4. I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#5. My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
Uzo Aduba
#6. Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or 'French.' The word 'Nigerian' is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not.
Obafemi Awolowo
#7. She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.
Bonnie Greer
#8. Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor
Sunday Adelaja
#9. Since when has cheating in examinations become Nigerian?
Sunday Adelaja
#10. Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?
Sunday Adelaja
#11. My black friends in America don't believe me. I said, 'Dude, I'm Nigerian American.' 'Word? We thought you were, like, regular black.' What the hell is 'regular black'? Crayola coming out with colors I don't know about?
Godfrey
#12. Perhaps he found it strange being accompanied by a Chinese-Nigerian arms trafficking pirate, but the Irish priest had just followed me silently on board the covert government transport.
Dayo Ntwari
#13. The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
Ed Royce
#14. The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
Ibrahim Babangida
#15. I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
Uzo Aduba
#16. Ledisi means to come here, to bring forth. It's a Nigerian word and it's from the Yorubu culture, I believe, and my parents named me, my dad and my mom, and really my dad, and I had no choice in that. That's my real name and that's what it means.
Ledisi
#17. I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#18. So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, like, being Nigerian. And I'm just kind of, like, I wish I could be that sure.
Helen Oyeyemi
#19. Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola
who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.
Chris Abani
#20. Since when has irresponsibility and lack of accountability in public service become a Nigerian factor?
Sunday Adelaja
#21. One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#22. Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.
DeObia Oparei
#23. I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.
Estelle
#24. A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all - it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#25. Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?
Sunday Adelaja
#26. I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.
Sefi Atta
#27. Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.
Ben Okri
#30. The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
Ed Royce
#31. I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
William Golding
#32. My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe ... I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#33. I am hearing a more resounding voice in the spirit saying,God is changing the guard in the Nigerian church.
Sunday Adelaja
#34. The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.
Muhammadu Buhari
#35. I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
Wale
#36. There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
Ibrahim Babangida
#37. It is my name for you. Amaka is a Nigerian name and it means beautiful.
Tami Egonu
#38. I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
Goodluck Jonathan
#39. '419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them.
Evan Osnos
#40. As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.
Muhammadu Buhari
#41. With a name like Cush Jumbo, you never get forgotten. The 'Jumbo' is from my father, who is Nigerian, and 'Cush' was a king in ancient Egypt. It's a name that took a few years to grow into, but now I feel it was meant to be. It's absolutely who I am, and I love it.
Cush Jumbo
#42. Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.
Sunday Adelaja
#43. You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
Ben Okri
#44. I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.
John Boyega
#45. The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
Ibrahim Babangida
#46. My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
John Boyega
#47. We define masculinity in very narrow way. Masculinity is hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak
a hard man,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#48. I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
Dayo Okeniyi
#49. My earliest vivid memory would be my Nigerian mother. She would wrap me on her back. I remember being on her back a lot. It felt like a ride, like I was riding a dinosaur; going everywhere and seeing everything.
John Boyega
#50. My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger, it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England, it was very British. I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.
Toks Olagundoye
#51. If you are a Nigerian professor and your professorship cannot be felt practically in the Nigerian society; then to hell with your professorship!
Tony Osborg
#52. Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection.
Teju Cole
#53. The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
Ibrahim Babangida
#54. There's a Nigerian adage that says 'no matter how long an okra plant grows it can never be taller than its owner'.
S.A. David
#55. Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor's blessings become a Nigerian norm?
Sunday Adelaja
#56. ...a Nigerian couple visiting from Maryland, their two boys sitting next to them on the sofa, both buttoned-up and stiff, caged in the airlessness of their parents' immigrant aspirations.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#57. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.
Richard Dawkins
#58. I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#59. Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English ... ?
Chris Cleave
#60. Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber - reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian - the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.
Isaac Yeffet
#61. The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
Chinua Achebe
#62. Brethren let's face it. What we practice in Nigerian Churches and in most parts of the world today is more of religion than Christian faith.
Sunday Adelaja
#63. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#64. You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#65. Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.
Sylvia Poggioli
#66. We must "Bring Back Our Girls" and support Nigerians working every day to create change. Please donate now to support Nigerian organizations educating and standing up for girls
Malala Yousafzai
#67. Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#68. We must stop calling corruption a "Nigerian factor".
Sunday Adelaja
#69. Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon
my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?
Charles Krauthammer
#70. I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
Buchi Emecheta
#71. Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others. The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
David Steindl-Rast
#72. I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#73. I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
Taiye Selasi
#74. I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of Fruit of the Lunatic ... Guy was not too bright. He said that the reason he became a suicide bomber was to work his way up in the al Qaeda organization.
David Letterman
#75. There's no such a thing as American, Belgian, or Nigerian blood. There's only one kind: human blood.
Ben Tolosa
#76. Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.
Teju Cole
#77. Since when has outright denial of truth become a Nigerian factor?
Sunday Adelaja
#78. I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
#79. A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)
Habeeb Akande
#80. The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#81. Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.
Jude Idada
#82. The universe does not work in phrases; don't focus on the commas; just wait for the full stop.
Jude Idada
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