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Eloghosa Osunde
9 quotes
“I would always tell myself that I'd write a book eventually, but I just thought I was too young to have anything to say.”
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“Being around other Nigerian writers and trading stories, talking about dreams, and seeing that some of them were going on to be published authors showed me that it was possible.”
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“The main text that was instrumental in the book is actually the Bible. I feel like it’s one of the highest expressions of what language can do to a spirit or what language can do to spirits over time.”
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“I think that love is what saves our lives, isn't it? The world is brutal a lot of the time, but I think that we can make little worlds in which we are safe. Love is one great way to do that.”
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“I listen to music every day. It’s transportation. I love being able to go from an Afrobeat song to James Blake. It’s also linked to memory; if you think about most of your memories that come back to you easily, there was probably music playing somewhere in the background.”
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“I grew up in a home where it wasn't a scary thing for something to reveal itself to me spiritually before it became real.”
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“Growing up, books were my most reliable way to get Somewhere Else, and Somewhere Else is where I wanted to be a lot of the time, so I read way too many books to count.”
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“My memory of books is also linked to lasting love. My first best friend, F., and I had a separate ritual of spending hours discussing our thoughts on characters and I think it tethered us to each other.”
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“When I was 13 or so, an erotica book went around by an author with the pseudonym Zane. (I looked her up, writing this.) I read and loved the book, then passed it on to a friend who passed it on to another friend until a teacher found it. The whole class got punished over this, because no one would say where or who it came from. Some people didn’t know and those of us who did would rather kneel for two hours than submit the name.”
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