Fumilayo Ransome

"As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid lying morality and so I am beyond caring."

"Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a water-cooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue."

"To be a good politician you must be wise like a snake, calm like a dove and kind like an angel."

"How beautiful would it be if our women could have the same opportunity as men."

"The true position of Nigerian women had to be judged from the women who carried babies on their backs and farmed from sunrise to sunset, not women who used tea, sugar, and flour for breakfast."

"We had equality till Britain came."