In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I suppose I’m pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
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. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
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.’ Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate ‘we’ and ‘outside’ or ‘us and them.’ I think that that’s something that we really, really need to pay attention to. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
Beasts of No Nation’ began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
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. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
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. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
