Yemisi Aribisala Quotes

I come from a society where the default is conformity. I don’t know how to conform and I find myself putting question marks against everything

The truth is you have to get on top of the reading as soon as possible and you have to keep in mind that this is the sum of people’s YEARS of hard labour, sweat and pain that you hold in your hands. Without being able to meet all the people who make that thing in your hand possible, you have to conjure up their presence, interact with every single book with great reverence.

We don’t have a Nigerian culture of cooking and monologuing. It is coming along now with social media and Nigerian food celebrities.

Attitude hardly counts at all when we are attempting to determine what foods nourish the body. A lot of intolerances and allergies as they concern individual bodies are life and death issues and toxicology issues.

What better way to spend one’s time in the country of fringe dwellers than capitalising on one’s failures? Why wallow in failure? If you can’t beat them, or join them, then you write about them. Yes, it does end up as a kind of power and advantageous positioning in standing out from the crowd because most people don’t want fringe-dweller strength

There is nothing any of us can do about the fact that the world is shrinking so we need to learn how to speak more languages, not fewer.

Investing one’s own disadvantage in words: Opening an artery onto the page, that kind of thing, apart from a love for the theme being written on.

Parents have a lot of professing power over their children. Praise and admonishments are crafting tools like names.

There are so many dissimilarities, so many unique points of difference between this one country in Africa and the rest of the world.

The pandemic has forced a balance in the nation’s perspective where food writing is concerned.

There is a need to speak on something and I don’t agree with the status quo. The self-deprecation probably comes from not fitting in no matter how hard I try.

I am writing all the time on being Nigerian and living in Nigeria but I have been accused of being stylistically un-Nigerian. My direct address of taboo objects, subjects and descriptions of people are supposedly un-Nigerian.

In Nigeria, we have given ourselves no other option than the institutional use of the English language. We haven’t, in addition, provided the necessity and the resources of mastering the use of multiple languages. And that opportunity is so pertinent.

There are many things that happen in the human being that bypass the brain.

The more handling of a wide variety of food that one can manage the more open one’s mind and palate.