159 Quotes by Nnedi Okorafor

I’d seen myself as broken. But couldn’t you be broken and still bring change?

Dedicated to the little blue jellyfish I saw swimming the Khalid Lagoon that sunny day in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

They say that when faced with a fight you cannot win, you can never predict what you will do next. But I’d always known I’d fight until I was killed.

Overconsumption is a universal human trait,” Orlu pointed out. “And so is ignorance.

I was a trapped animal. Not trapped by the women, the house, or tradition. I was trapped by life. Like I had been a free spirit for millennia and then one day something snatched me up, something violent and angry and vengeful, and I was pulled into the body that I now resided in.

I swiped otjize from my forehead with my index finger and knelt down. Then I touched the finger to the sand, grounding the sweet smelling red clay into it. “Thank you,” I whispered.

As I have repeated incessantly throughout this book, there is no direction you can turn that does not face you toward certain death.

Anthony was calm as an underground river. Father Oke was a volcano ready to erupt.

If there was one thing I had learned in all my strange journeys it was that what would be would be and sometimes you wait to see.