Chinelo Okparanta

“I suppose it's the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else's tragedy.

Though it is true, too, that sometimes it is hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.”
― Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees

“Happiness is like water,' she says. 'We're always trying to grab onto it, but it's always slipping between our fingers.”
― Chinelo Okparanta