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"50 Uzodinma Iweala Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 5 November 1982 | Author |

I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you,

Ready Good Because Myself
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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.

Afraid Compassion Could Disease
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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.

About Authors Books Casting
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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.

Dealing Difficult Even Existence
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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.

About Article Child Felt
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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
Ability Activity Good Good Writing
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Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.

Authors Brutality Decay Destruction
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There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.

African Aid Appreciate Cultural
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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?

Africa African Angelina Jolie Attention
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Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of unprecedented growth.

Acknowledge Africa Capable Community
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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.

Causes End Kidnapped Kidnapping
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The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

Alive Because Close Devastating
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.

Know Want A Writer
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Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.
Good Good Way Something Sometimes
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.

About Article Beasts Began
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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Accessible Around Cities Clusters
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Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

Car Centre Display Excellence
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As an adult, I discovered Claritin, and my whole world changed.
Adult Changed Discovered Whole
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D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

Am Back Blood Cannot
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For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.

Am How I Am I Can
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I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.
Book First Great Great Success
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I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is not the only thing to be done - I want to have an effect on the world.

Done Effect Got Keep
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Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.

Ben Country Dream Feels
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'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

Books Childhood Displayed Few
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The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because - Ross Perot.

Because Blessed Cast Ever
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

Ask Clinical Environment How
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Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

Anybody Book Good Liar
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I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there's an automatic understanding.

About Automatic Black Common
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I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

Affect Beasts Different Different Way
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My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

Afforded Aware Been Brings
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It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.
Advantage Everywhere Happens Nigeria
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America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

America Is Decidedly Racial
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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

Barack Brings Difference Discomfort
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Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

Address American Future Must
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I've been writing since I was really young.

Been Really Since Writing
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
Because Fiction Freedom Gives
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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

Easier Get I Love Language
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In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

Africa Been Broad Etc
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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

American Black Definition I Think
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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.'

About Also Being Complex
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There are multiple levels of 'we' and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

Aware Constitute Groups Idea
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It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.

Beautiful Beautiful Thing Desire Fellow
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No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

Entirely Given No-One Really
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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

Afraid Africa African China
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There are some people who will tell you oil is the greatest thing that ever happened to Nigeria. And there are other people who will tell you it's the worst thing that ever happened.

Ever Greatest Greatest Thing Happened
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It takes time for people to understand how to hold leaders accountable.

Accountable Hold How Leaders
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It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

How I Can Impact Individual
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We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

Ability Believe Church Define
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Everybody has an equal right to be on this earth and to be happy on this earth and to achieve on this earth. That's kind of the way that I would like to try and go about living.

About Achieve Be Happy Earth
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Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see 'The Matrix' or whatever, you see whatever film it is, and you're like, 'Oh cool,' whatever.

Action Action Movie Come Cool
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Uzodinma Iweala Quotes & Sayings