I don’t think that one should beat himself or herself over the head if immediately you’re not like Jesus Christ or, you know, Gandhi or whoever. But I think the idea is to… to look at those examples and try to… try to operate in a way that every day you live or every interaction you have pushes you further along to operating with that mindset. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I hear a good song and I start thinking, ‘Oh shoot. You know there’s a story that can be told to this,’ and whatnot. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I would say, number one, don’t worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I don’t think there is enough understanding of how diverse black America actually is. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I think the fact that we don’t really… that the world really doesn’t acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don’t really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that… that it’s just kind of glossed over as this thing. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
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. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
Anybody who tells you they’re not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people in New York would speak about some of the issues people were facing. At the time, 2006-ish, there were a number of big media campaigns to raise awareness about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I’ll confess that, from an early age, I was a huge fan of President Reagan because my parents bought me an enormous stuffed monkey that they named President Reagan – yes, I get it now. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
