Tope Folarin Quotes

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“Growing up, I experienced this viscerally because my parents are from Nigeria, I was born and raised in America and my parents tried to hand over that identity card and that didn’t fit me because I was growing up in a context in which their identity didn’t necessarily line up with how I saw myself…”

Tope Folarin

On the generational rifts in his family in “TOPE FOLARIN’S SEARCH FOR HIMSELF” https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/tope-folarin-interview in Mel Magazine (2019)

“The sometimes-negative aspect of growing up in this country without a firm cultural basis is that your entire being becomes predicated on satisfying others. And I discovered that's what I was doing…”

Tope Folarin

On discovering who he was during grad school in “Tope Folarin Was 'A Particular Kind Of Black Man' — So He Wrote A Book About It” https://www.npr.org/2019/08/24/751917486/tope-folarin-was-a-particular-kind-of-black-man-so-he-wrote-a-book-about-it in NPR (2019 Aug 24)