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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

You People Yourself Great

A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.

Tiger Does Shout Acts

There's a blessing in everything that happens to us.

Blessing Everything Us Happens

All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.

Brain Changes Players Seen

I'm Nigerian. I'm African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It's a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them.

Relationship Me People Feeling

I'm thankful because all the hard work and sacrifices were worth it in the end.

Hard Work Work Thankful End

Don't hesitate or talk about what you want to do. Just do it.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

You Want Talk Just

Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.

Life Good God Heart

As a young boy in a new country, you had to make new friends, and that was really difficult.

You New Friends Boy Friends

We know we are on the right path. Our journey is not finished, but we have come a long way.

Muhammadu Buhari

Journey Path Long Way

Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

Hakeem Olajuwon

Me Knowledge Money Allah

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I Am World Way Person

My musical career was an accident.

Career Accident Musical

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Inspirational Love Suffering Create

The gas, which is our main source of power, is priced in dollars.

Power Which Gas Source

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Fight Country Dictatorship Injustice

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

Attention Say Always Pun

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Philip Emeagwali

Motivational Me Future Past

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

Myself Me Man Hate

The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity.

World Unity Diversity Fall

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

World Smoke Magic Place

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

You Believe Problems Find

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

Drawing Think Purpose Start

We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is created for private investment, both within and direct foreign investment. So jobs will be created. That is my dream for Nigeria.

Goodluck Jonathan

Will Dream Want Environment

Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

Skin Live Color Your

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

Alone Way Lonely Become

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