Yewande Omotoso

Quotes

• “Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning.”
• “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 up scrubbing the life away from living. We can't excise joy from pain.”
• “Coming from across cultures, I believe I mostly value difference as opposed to being threatened by it... Over time as I gain in knowledge and become braver I hope to set more stories solidly in Nigeria or Barbados but you cannot, as a writer, fake familiarity with a place – I don’t think so anyway.”

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