Nnedi O Quotes

#1. I have this obsession with destruction.

Nnedi Okorafor

#2. All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

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#3. You fit get me inside dere?" he asked, his voice lusty in her ear. "I go try, baby," she whispered.

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#4. It's ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you, yourself, think ... The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength. You're stronger than you believe.

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#5. She imagines the cocoa brown of Nnedi's eyes lighting up, her lips moving quickly, explaining that riots do not happen in a vacuum, that religion and ethnicity are often politicized because the ruler is safe if the hungry ruled are killing one another.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

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#7. Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

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#8. You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.

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#9. Look, Brother Chris, women are . . . weak vessels. It is identified in the Bible.

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#10. Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind.

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#11. Use your powers for good instead of evil

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#12. would you have felt?

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#13. But deep down inside me, I wanted . . . I needed it. I couldn't help but act on it. The urge was so strong that it was mathematical.

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#14. My father didn't believe in war. He said war was evil, but if it came he would revel in it like sand in a storm.

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#15. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless." What

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#16. I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.

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#17. We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel firmly. 'It is the essence of all things, to move and change and keep going forward and backward and around. Even the spirits and the dead.

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#18. Suffering is against the Way. Let us end you.

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#19. Two footsteps do not make a path.

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#20. Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them.

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#21. There are more valuable things in life than safety and comfort. Learn. You owe it to yourself.

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#22. Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.

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#23. I love ocean life. I'm fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted seawater consisted of nearly the same concentration of elements and minerals as blood plasma. They've got the same amount of sodium, too.

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#24. Let me guess," the frog interrupted,"Like every other human explored I've even met, you want to know the meaning of life."
"I didn't-"
"The answer's forty-four. The machine was off by two" the frog snapped, "Believe me, it makes a world of difference...

Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

#25. 'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.

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#26. I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

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#27. I love writing about monsters and food.

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#28. Then I slid a slice of white milky dessert on my tray. I did not know its name, but it was easily the most wonderful thing I'd ever tasted. Each bite would fuel my mental well-being.

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#29. How can a man slap his wife 'in the name of Jesus'? You instructed him to do so! You think I didn't see your e-mail to him a week ago? 'Break her with your hands, then soften her with flowers.

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#30. To know someone's pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.

Nnedi Okorafor