"The pieces of life, even when put together, assembled, never amount to the life itself."

"She understood what perhaps they are only just learning. That if you attempt to clean the messiness of life you end u…"

"Coming from across cultures, I believe I mostly value difference as opposed to being threatened by it... Over time as…"

"My mother died when I was 23, and apart from the recent birth of my children, that is the most profound experience of…"

"Regardless of how many years I’ve lived in South Africa I think of myself as a product of three nations: Barbados, …"

"Identity is complex. I love being a Nigerian, I love belonging to that identity even if my belonging is complex, due …"

"When I think of dangerous women I don’t think of women in whose presence I am in danger. When I think of dangerous wo…"

"Dangerous women show up sometimes, they disturb something"

"Many of the women on the island of my birth are like this. Their bow tongues launch arrows into the world and never m…"

"My grandmother was one such woman. For very long she convinced me only of her sweetness until one day when I commente…"