22 Quotes by Tade Thompson

I find that the older I get, the less I care what people think about me. I only care what a small number of people think, and that number is dwindling daily.

A bolekaja rolls by, all the passengers glaring at each other. A bolekaja is a modified Mercedes 911 truck used for mass transit. The word means “disembark so we can fight” because the passengers are tightly packed and always aggravated.

In her mind I read that any community can be assessed by the way it treats women, not something I have thought of before.

She loves that writers make words their servants and bend them to their will.