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Top 10 Bassey Ikpi Quotes (2025 Update)

Bassey Ikpi Quote: “He is the only one I regret being too broken for. If I could have allowed myself to love him, maybe this life would have shaped itself differently. Maybe I wouldn’t have had to wait to break. Maybe I wouldn’t have broken at all. Or fallen. Or maybe he would have caught me. Or maybe I would have destroyed him. I think I would have destroyed him.”

1. “He is the only one I regret being too broken for. If I could have allowed myself to love him, maybe this life would have shaped itself differently. Maybe I wouldn’t have had to wait to break. Maybe I wouldn’t have broken at all. Or fallen. Or maybe he would have caught me. Or maybe I would have destroyed him. I think I would have destroyed him.”

— Bassey Ikpi

Bassey Ikpi Quote: “This job that I’m so lucky to have, this job that I am constantly reminded not to take for granted, this job that people would die for. I’m waiting for it to kill me.”

2. “This job that I’m so lucky to have, this job that I am constantly reminded not to take for granted, this job that people would die for. I’m waiting for it to kill me.”

— Bassey Ikpi

Bassey Ikpi Quote: “I forgive her always because how can you not forgive someone whose whole life was a sprint towards survival?”

3. “I forgive her always because how can you not forgive someone whose whole life was a sprint towards survival?”

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Bassey Ikpi Quote: “You are proud of the way the night loved you so much it offered you stars for your face.”

4. “You are proud of the way the night loved you so much it offered you stars for your face.”

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Bassey Ikpi Quote: “My older cousins told me that white people used to be brown, like us, until they did something to anger God. He turned them into fleshless, pale shells as punishment. “Look at how their skin reddens in the sun. Look at how it burns. Look at how the sweat pours down their faces and flattens their hair.” They used my fear to convince me to steal coconut sweets and biscuits from the market – threatening me with “God said to listen, or do you want to become one of the white people?”

5. “My older cousins told me that white people used to be brown, like us, until they did something to anger God. He turned them into fleshless, pale shells as punishment. “Look at how their skin reddens in the sun. Look at how it burns. Look at how the sweat pours down their faces and flattens their hair.” They used my fear to convince me to steal coconut sweets and biscuits from the market – threatening me with “God said to listen, or do you want to become one of the white people?”

— Bassey Ikpi

Bassey Ikpi Quote: “Because I know how that dog-eared page persists and insists you return to it. I know how the brain and the heart and the spirit fight daily to stay in the book and not write themselves out of the story. I know. I know. I know.”

6. “Because I know how that dog-eared page persists and insists you return to it. I know how the brain and the heart and the spirit fight daily to stay in the book and not write themselves out of the story. I know. I know. I know.”

— Bassey Ikpi

Bassey Ikpi Quote: “Yoga was still terrible, like a game of Simon Says with no winner.”

7. “Yoga was still terrible, like a game of Simon Says with no winner.”

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Bassey Ikpi Quote: “My mother mistakes questions for attacks and accusations. She weaponizes her silences.”

8. “My mother mistakes questions for attacks and accusations. She weaponizes her silences.”

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Bassey Ikpi Quote: “I thought about the way my mind wanders, how I drift through days losing hours, forgetting to remain in my body. How they call me absentminded, forgetful. The way I am mercury spilling over surfaces – solid and liquid, here and not.”

9. “I thought about the way my mind wanders, how I drift through days losing hours, forgetting to remain in my body. How they call me absentminded, forgetful. The way I am mercury spilling over surfaces – solid and liquid, here and not.”

— Bassey Ikpi

Bassey Ikpi Quote: “It makes you feel unfinished, like in your family’s eyes you will never be completely whole. And in your eyes, you have never been completely whole.”

10. “It makes you feel unfinished, like in your family’s eyes you will never be completely whole. And in your eyes, you have never been completely whole.”

— Bassey Ikpi

Bassey Ikpi Quote: “It’s difficult to distinguish which lies are mine and which belong to others. Which I told to close the gaps in my brain and which were told to me to silence my questions.”

11. “It’s difficult to distinguish which lies are mine and which belong to others. Which I told to close the gaps in my brain and which were told to me to silence my questions.”

— Bassey Ikpi

Bassey Ikpi Quote: “She weaponizes her silences.”

12. “She weaponizes her silences.”

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Bassey Ikpi Quote: “The restlessness has begun, like a low hum in my belly. It follows me through my days. I am sleepless nights. The comfort found only in quiet.”

13. “The restlessness has begun, like a low hum in my belly. It follows me through my days. I am sleepless nights. The comfort found only in quiet.”

— Bassey Ikpi

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