Quotes about "Neurodiversity & Different Abilities"

I don't stay in the constant worried and over-thinking zone. ”

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right. ”

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. ”

People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages. ”

I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way. ”

When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.' ”

I hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,' and whatnot. ”

I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.' ”

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate. ”

It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American. ”