"For me, writing is like being an actress, in a way, because I get into the role, to make it believable. Otherwise you won’t be able to connect and relate to it"

"I knew a lot about European history, but I couldn’t tell you anything substantial about African history"

"my early reading was devoid of Black writers and African literature as a whole"

"Writing as a career is not financially lucrative for most writers"

"I think there is a tendency of viewing happiness as a destination and that you can exist in that state forever, I dont buy that."

"I think often we are told the story that powerful women can't get along right? But I think it's kind of a male perspective course when men are together they somehow feel like there can only be one dominant male. Like, there's only enough light for one spot light and so when they look at women they project that onto women as well"

"Even in the same industry, the presence of healthy competition doesn't imply that we (women) don't respect each other. I think it also says a lot about the person when they find another powerful woman to be threatening. It says something about how you see yourself as opposed to what the other women are doing"

"I don't mind not being on TV for a certain time, as long as in that time I am busy with something"

"When a show has been running for a while, the actors form a bond and a rhythm of the show and they get into a groove. When you get there you have to match that energy"

"I am happy with where I am"

"My heart will always belong to the stage"

"Every actor's job is to get her act right and make sure that she gels so well with the other actor's that viewers can't tell that you are new"

"I am not at a stage where I feel like a veteran"

"I've learnt that hair and beauty are deeply personal"

"You can't shame someone into feeling good about themselves; they have to come to it on their own time"

"My natural crown is a celebration of who I am"

"I then stopped reading because I decided that I needed to bring this person to life onscreen because a character in a book is different."

"I like my work to be one side and just leave it there and then I come to a place where I am accepted, a place where I can just be me and fun things and be happy."

"Fame became a big part of my life in my early years but I didn’t want that to define me. I learned to be a person of worth aside from that."

"Acting became a vehicle for me to do the work I was meant to do, which is to share what I’ve been through."

"Your diet plays into your overall health – mind, body and soul."

"There are many patients who come to me with depression and anxiety. Often, I have to recommend that they fix their gut health first, because that is where the healing is rooted."

"I'm a sister and the aim here is not to break people or make them feel like they can't do anything."

"Culture is a very important part of who we are, and it makes us great."

"Also, there comes a point in life when you get tired of playing it safe. You sort of want to stretch yourself a bit and kind of surprise yourself. I love the element of surprising myself and not being too comfortable in the things that I do."

"I think this stems from our parents because they were never comfortable enough to talk to us about intimacy. But it’s something that should be handled with respect. These are the elements I thought about - to say ‘you know what, sex is not a bad thing. It’s what created all of us.’"

"I love clean, structured, and refined pieces that you could almost wear inside out because of how well they're made. Every stitch, every seam, tells a story of care, pride, and passion."

"I think that my real age is 16, I’m just energetic and full of life."

"I am a big supporter of embracing who you are and staying authentic, because that's the one quality that separates you from the rest."

"That’s the beauty about acting - it allows you to forget about yourself and to wear this character."

"I've always loved fashion and the art of standing out, using clothes as a form of self-expression."

"I do find that late 30’s and middle aged people seem to have more of a crisis as their set friends, behaviours, interests, job environment suddenly do not bring them the joy and satisfaction they once did; and then they start grappling with the reasons why, and often, like I mention in my book, one starts blaming and naming and shaming everything external for their lack of joy but it’s the inward things that need looking at."

"I am particular about craftmanship. I believe a garment should be as beautiful inside as it is outside."

"I'm hoping that the legacy of 'Girlfriends' is just that you can enjoy and connect to Joan, Maya, Toni, Lynn, and William and see your humanity reflected in theirs. That's what I'm hoping that it did."

"I'll just go about and just give you a brief background of my guest today:"

"Hello welcome to One-on-One. My name is Cyril Stobber. My guest today, is educated at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and the University of Leeds at the United Kingdom. She holds a Barchelors Degree in Business Administration and Masters Degree in Development Studies. Her career actually started at the private sector, but over the years, she has stints in the public sector.."

"I was nurtured by Ralph Farquhar and then, later, by Sara Finney-Johnson and Vida Spears, two black women. So, I actually was nurtured by my culture, in a safe environment that allowed me to build my confidence. And Debbie Allen was one of my mentors, along with Stan Lathan."

"For the first time, we have a critical mass of American Muslim women who are pioneering American Muslim culture"

"I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at."

"We also encourage for citizen engagement. There is particular category of assessment deliverables; is about having citizens engagement, be it a town-hall, a meeting, civil society engagement, it could be a twitter space engagement virtually. But that citizen engagement is important because the president is keen for citizens to be aware of what his ministries are doing"

"For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are."

"Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity."

"And so I believed,that these limitations were prescribed by Islam, and as a good Muslim girl, I should comply. The reward would be a picture-perfect life, which meant good grades, getting into a great college, marrying a wonderful man, having a baby within two years and then pursuing graduate school. I lived that illusion for many years."

"Technology has changed our industry, and I think that's opened up different revenue streams and ways to make money and distribute television. It's made the global conversation easier, quicker."

"There wasn’t a collection of American Muslim women’s writings across ethnic and ideological lines, These women don’t remember a time when they weren’t both American and Muslim, much unlike our parents, who were raised in other countries or in other faith traditions."

"The medieval (c. 1347-1351) was one of the most devastating s in human history. It killed tens of millions of Europeans, and recent analyses have shown that the disease targeted elderly adults and individuals who had been previously exposed to physiological stressors. Following the epidemic, there were improvements in standards of living, particularly in dietary quality for all socioeconomic strata."

"Much of the published bioarchaeological research on the has been done using samples from the in London. The location, purpose, and dimensions of East Smithfield are recorded in historical documents. Reports of the Black Death preceded its arrival in London, and East Smithfield was established in anticipation of the high mortality that would result in the city (Grainger et al. 2008, Hawkins 1990). The Black Death arrived in 1349 and lasted in London until 1350; East Smithfield was used only during the Black Death, so most, if not all, of the people buried there were victims of the disease. East Smithfield was partially excavated in the 1980s as part of the larger Royal Mint site, and more than 600 individuals interred in single burials or mass burial trenches were excavated from the cemetery."

"is the study of . The primary foci of demography are rates and levels of , , and and how these all interact to produce population growth (or decline), density, and age- and sex-structures; how these rates or levels vary across time and space and what produces such variation; and what consequences these have on other aspects of human (or nonhuman) existence. These demographic phenomena lie at the very heart of . occurs as a result of differential fertility and mortality within a population; gene flow occurs because of migration between populations; and the effects of genetic drift are dependent upon population size, which is an outcome of the interactions among mortality, fertility, and migration (Gage, DeWitte, & Wood, 2012). These demographic forces also affect, are affected by, and reflect many of the things that anthropologists find most interesting. For example, the age–sex structure of a population influences the population’s ratio of consumers to producers and numbers of potential marriage partners, and thus places limits on such things as subsistence strategies and household structure."

"Women matter, and we plead with our men here to make the cases of women their matter."

"What has become of the Affirmative Action Act? … It is high time some considerations are made to make sure that women are more inclusive in the governance of this country."