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3 Nii Ayikwei Parkes Quotes

Nii Ayikwei Parkes shares a breezy take on literature as a kind of foreplay, sparking creative connections.

Nii Ayikwei Parkes quotes

  1. Literature is the new foreplay.

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  1. An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit of Difference bristles with penknife-sharp dialogue, but its truths are more subtle, hiding in the unspoken. Ultimately, A Bit of Difference explores – with a hint of mischief–the problem of how to look like you have no problems when you have abundant problems–the universal problem of the socially-motivated classes.

  2. If my heart is broken, I should be thankful that I was blessed to have loved but I cannot live that wisely. That's why I cry.