"You can read a lot of books and the main characters are white people - especially in the classics - and after a while you forget that you're not white, almost, because it's this big pervasive culture. And then you find books like Yoruba Girl Dancing [by Simi Bedford] and you think: it's just as interesting to be Nigerian in England as it is to be white in England."
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Helen Oyeyemi as quoted in 'I didn't know I was writing a novel', The Guardian, 10 January 2005.
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