"I slammed the door in the child's face,……" — Nnedi Okorafor
"I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat."
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13 Quotes by Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor has 13 quotes on this site.
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Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
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People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of…
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Use your powers for good instead of evil
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You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.
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All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back…
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Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be…
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Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when…
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It's ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you,…
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Silence is the best answer to a fool.
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Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.
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Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!
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We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue…
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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