Life is like a set of false teeth. The world sees what you show it: Clean teeth wey white like Colgate. But you know for inside dat your real teet' d… - Chika Unigwe

Never give up if your heart and your head tell you are right. People can disappoint you, but your heart and your head will never. Make them your best friends.

S is for sins. What is a sin? At Catechism, she was taught to repeat, 'Sin is an offence against reason, truth and right conscience.' But she could not tell what sins she was supposed to be atoning for. What were her mother's sins? Mma swallowed all the words she wanted to say and started eating the food she no longer tasted.

You children, you forget that no matter how high the okra tree grows, it's never mightier than the hand that planted it.