3 Quotes by Lesley Nneka Arimah

My reading has always been, I have no respect for genres, in the sense that I have never been the sort of person who elevates any literary tradition over another … When I write, I also have no respect for genres.

When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him hollowed out, relieved of her better parts.

[H]e knows he should chastise the girl, he knows that, but she is his brightest Amber and he would not have her dimmed.