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Lesley Nneka Arimah
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“When I think of what literature can do, and I think of the ways that literature has changed minds and opened imaginations, I want to say that we African writers must centre the African gaze.”
Lesley Nneka Arimah (born 1983) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from her acceptance speech (9 February 2020)
“A reader comes to the page and essentially learns the rules of this world, not because the rules are being told to them but because the rules are being broken. Via the consequences of the rules being broken, the reader comes to understand what the rules are.”
Lesley Nneka Arimah (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is nothing inherently wrong with not knowing as much as people think you should or not knowing everything. There is no need to feel any sort of shame.”
Lesley Nneka Arimah (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There needs to be something that matters to you, even if you’re inventing this impossible world filled with raffia babies.”
Lesley Nneka Arimah (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A world where women must remain naked until they are married; there are complications.”
Lesley Nneka Arimah (born 1983) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Describing her winning short story Skinned in one sentence (16 July 2019)
“So why not be as deliberate in creating myth as those who came before us, so that those who come after us can better understand our concerns and our cultural obsessions”
Lesley Nneka Arimah (born 1983) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Some present-day concerns that preoccupy and permeate into her fiction (July 2019)
“So it’s not motivation to continue, but reward for work already completed. That’s the most important thing to keep in mind, that the work comes first.”
Lesley Nneka Arimah (born 1983) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Her definition of prizes (16 July 2019)