159 Quotes by Nnedi Okorafor

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

Use your powers for good instead of evil

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.

I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat.

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.

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

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

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 that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.