Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

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• Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
• People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing…
• Use your powers for good instead of evil
• You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.
• 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…
• I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat.
• Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh…
• Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place…
• 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…
• Silence is the best answer to a fool.
• Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.
• Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!
• We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

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