Poet, daydreamer, & elsewhats. Poetry Editor, Kokoro. Nonfiction Editor, VOALIT. Substack: https://xitter.cf/t.co/E8Ijsewmmf
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Joined March 2024
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Chidera Harrison retweeted
There is nothing quite as lucky as being hated for being reasonable or truthful—for living a singular life.
Chidera Harrison retweeted
Be wary of African writers who specialize in suggesting that things are not that bad.
Things are that bad. Infrastructure is nowhere near enough. The ones that exist are not funded.
And we still don’t have enough essayists.
Only when you acknowledge a problem can you fix it.
I've always known this:
The idea of security is far more useful than the actual security itself. I mean, the idea of security is in itself a kind of security, and an efficient and sufficient one.
Chidera Harrison retweeted
Intelligent people hate pretending. Forced connections. Fake energy. Surface-level conversations. Pretending to be interested in things they don't care about. Performing a personality just to fit in. That shit drains them. They'd rather be alone than "pretend" to be someone they're not.
Chidera Harrison retweeted
“I was ashamed of myself when I realized that life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face.”
- Franz Kafka
“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”
. . .
“And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.”
Chidera Harrison retweeted
“The smartest people are all self-taught, even if they went to school.”
— Naval Ravikant
