"How could I explain that the way he craved my body made me angry"

"I keep remembering the man who repeatedly lifted an empty fork from his plate to his toothless mouth."

"A book reads us as much as we read a book."

"Negritude is an ideology of the elite, completely devoid of meaning for the masses ... Negritude is an ideology sugge…"

"" The future of Nigeria is no longer in it's army as some of us used to think, but in the oil business."

"always remember that you are an Ajayi man. Don’t forget the Ajayi motto – In all things moderation, with exception of…"

"Now the books are arranged according to which characters I believe ought to be talking to each other."

"How often I have felt lonely even when with someone. Lonelier sometimes than when I’m on my own."

"I may be old, but farting and burping in public is not something I intend to succumb to. If I can help it."

"It’s tough out here, and sometimes when I read about Africa, I don’t see America being any better. It’s really a cryi…"