Sometimes you are the only living, walking, breathing version of the Bible that people will ever see. What long-lasting taste are you going to leave in their mouths? A lot of people have left a bad...

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a...

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

We stand in our own light, which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

The YA author community is generally pretty friendly, and they care.

We've had people like Marc Vivien-Foe die while playing. There have been too many others, including Cheick Tiote. The clubs and the federations have to be serious about giving checkups to the players.

My son is 6. I wouldn't let my six-year-old son near any football field. And if any coach asks my son to play football, I'll sue that coach, and I'll sue the school.

There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.

As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to...

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

I've always felt that I'm successful for a reason - so I can help, whether that's one individual or a group of people. That's why I keep going with football. I love the game and I'll keep playing as...

As players we just have to go out there and make plays.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their artistry by commercialization, and I don't want to belong to that...

My father just instilled in me that either you're going to be No. 1 or nothing at all.

Nigeria has always been my choice if called up, and when they did, I was happy.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan, but I still think there is a lot of anime that is crazier than 'Harry Potter,' and that was a seven-book masterpiece.

Whatever a breakout game looks like to somebody else, if we get a win, I'll consider that a breakout game.

I entered the Miss Nigeria in America pageant - yes, it's a thing that existed. This was when I was getting my masters.

My freshman year of college, 'The Hunger Games' movie adaptation came out, and I was really excited about it. This was maybe 2011. I loved it, but there was a lot of hateful backlash against the black...

For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what...

I don't think revenge is necessarily a good emotion to explore, personally.

For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.

There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way.

As a footballer, if you work hard, then everything else falls into place.

I was fortunate to write pretty much a year out of film school and start making movies in the Hollywood studio system. But with each progressive film it became more frustrating not being able to speak...