“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”

“Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.”

“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.”

“We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.”

“People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.”

“They will always be doomed to supermarkets like this.”

“Military men would always overthrow one another, because they could, because they were all power drunk.”