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.

— Nnedi Okorafor

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I wanted to ask, ‘Why did you let this happen?’ but that was blasphemy. You never ask why. It was not a question for you to ask.

— Nnedi Okorafor

My father said that my curiosity was the last obstacle I had to overcome to be a true master harmonizer. If there was one thing my father and I disagreed on, it was that; I believed I could only be great if I were curious enough to seek greatness.

— Nnedi Okorafor

Now, in her fourteenth year on earth, if there was one rule she lived by it was the fact that Stories were soothsayers, truth-tellers and liars.

— Nnedi Okorafor

In Sankofa’s years on the road, she’d learned that people were complicated. They wore masks and guises to protect or hide their real selves. They reinvented themselves. They destroyed themselves. They built on themselves. She understood people and their often contradictory ways...

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You’re smaller than I imagined you,” she said with a smirk. She took a puff from her cigarette and exhaled the smoke. It smelled sweet and heady. This was the type of cigarette that made people see God, slowed time and attracted happiness. “Maybe your imagination is not big enough,” Sankofa said.

— Nnedi Okorafor

Who are the big eye? Are they a secret part of the American government or a powerful private corporation? Is there a difference?

— Nnedi Okorafor

Why did you call me over?” Sankofa asked. The woman crossed her arms over her chest, inspecting Sankofa as if she were the daughter of her best friend. “I like to look into the eyes of hurricanes,” she said.

— Nnedi Okorafor

When you do math fractals long enough, you kick yourself into treeing just enough to get lost in the shallows of the mathematical sea.

— Nnedi Okorafor

She loved this tree so much and every so often, it seemed to love her back, too, its leaves looking greener in the sunshine than any other tree.

— Nnedi Okorafor

People treat it with more respect than they treat any police officer. Maybe because the robot is polite, helpful and never asks for bribes.

— Nnedi Okorafor

They say that when faced with a fight you cannot win, you can never predict what you will do next.

— Nnedi Okorafor

She slurped her coffee loudly. “If you hide forever, you’ll never find anything.

— Nnedi Okorafor

I saw the White House while it was still worth seeing.

— Nnedi Okorafor

This was the type of cigarette that made people see God, slowed time and attracted happiness.

— Nnedi Okorafor

They hate what it does, yet Ultimate Corp continues doing it. It’s something more than human, by Allah. It’s the beast, a djinn. Fire and air, insubstantial, but very real. Human beings created it, but they will never control it.

— Nnedi Okorafor

Your generation has lost the art of proverb, the gift of wordplay, the science of fiction, the jujuism of the African,” he said picking up the joint he’d placed on the sand beside him.

— Nnedi Okorafor

I knew I could always return to my books. Not escape, return. I knew so much, but so little. You can have knowledge, but you are nothing without wisdom.

— Nnedi Okorafor

My ancestors are dancing.

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She’s the adopted child of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own.” There was truth in every single one of the stories.

— Nnedi Okorafor

My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people’s misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries.

— Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
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