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Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn't end.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#End
#Long-Term
#Return
#Wait
#Who
Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Ability
#Good
#Impact
#Medicine
#Writing
In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#High School
#People
#School
#Understand
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Difficult
#Existence
#Life
#Memoir
#Off
European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Fall
#Humanity
#Rest
#Vision
#World
When you relate to a disease, you're afraid. When you relate to a person, there is compassion. You see someone that is like you, that could be like you. You can see yourself in that same situation.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Compassion
#Person
#Situation
#Yourself
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not on the continent of Africa. Then we moved into this other phase, in which it was kind of like, it's everywhere.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Africa
#Exist
#First
#Phase
#Reaction
I don't think there is enough understanding of how diverse black America actually is.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#America
#Black
#Enough
#Understanding
People don't talk about the amount of destruction in terms of human lives that happen, whether it's through slavery, or through, for example, what Belgium was doing in the Congo - the fragmentation of society that happened after that destruction of human life.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Doing
#Human
#Life
#People
#Society
I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Because
#Fiction
#Freedom
#Like
#Me
In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Difference
#Discomfort
#Face
#Society
People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Africa
#Nigeria
#People
#Right
#Two
I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#American
#Black
#Often
#Society
#Think
When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Complex
#Speak
#Understand
#United
#Up
Nigeria is a difficult place. It is not a country for the faint of heart. On a good day, when our larger cities such as Abuja, Lagos, and Kano are filled with the teeming masses going in so many different directions, flogged by the heat and sun, bumping down uneven roads all in the name of 'the hustle,' it can appear chaotic.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Day
#Good Day
#Good
#Heart
#Sun
Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.
- Uzodinma Iweala
#Ancestors
#Dead
#Famous
#Imagination
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