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Famous Quotes By A. Igoni Barrett

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Dreams can lose their way and turn up on the wrong side of sleep. — A. Igoni Barrett

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Life in Lagos was locked in a constant struggle against empathy. Empathy was too much to ask for, too much to give: it was good only for beggars to exploit in their sob stories aimed at your pocket through your heart. Heart, in Lagos idiom, meant guts, mettle, even recklessness, but rarely compassion. — A. Igoni Barrett

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No one asks to be born, to be black or white or any color in between and yet the identity a person is born into becomes the hardest to explain to the world — A. Igoni Barrett

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Who I was as a person was more than what I looked like, but then again, how people saw me was a part of who I was. I — A. Igoni Barrett

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And he learnt how it felt to be seen as a freak: exposed to wonder, invisible to comprehension. About — A. Igoni Barrett

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Womanhood comes with its peculiar burdens, among them the constant reminder of a subordinate status whose dominant symptom was uninvited sexual attention from men — A. Igoni Barrett

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Lagos was built from blood and sweat, and raw ambition. Abuja was designed as a playground for the rich. — A. Igoni Barrett

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My say is this: when you live in a worldwide bullring, bullshit is what you'll get. If they say I cannot be my mother's son, then it must be that I'm her daughter. — A. Igoni Barrett

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But love does not mean marriage, a baby, forever. Love means you make me happy until you don't. — A. Igoni Barrett

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One of the reasons I will never leave Nigeria is because, in this country, anything can happen. — A. Igoni Barrett

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He knew that so long as the vestiges of his old self remained with him, his new self would never be safe from ridicule and incomprehension. — A. Igoni Barrett