Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

Are you willing to allow other the same right to their beliefs?
"If their beliefs don't hurt others and, when I feel the need, I am allowed to call them stupid in my mind, then yes."

When I am not moving toward my fate, it comes to me.

However, time doesn’t change the essence of what you are.

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

“In that time I was able to experiment — try things, see what worked, see what didn’t — without someone looking over my shoulder, like ‘Oh my God, that really is terrible!"...

I will never believe in Christ or Allah or any other God. I will never follow any religion.

Is it better to give or receive?
"They're the same," I said. "One can't exist without the other. But if you keep giving without receiving, you're a fool."

I love books . I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas . I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.

I believe aliens have definitely been here. I don’t think the theory that they have affected, interacted with, exchanged with the people of Earth (human and otherwise) in the past takes away from the accomplishments or innovations of anyone. I think the general belief that certain peoples are less than other peoples is what does that…

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.

The theme of choice and the power of culture pops up in my stories often. Before Binti, the biggest example of this is in Who Fears Death when Onyesonwu must face the decision of whether or not to go through a ceremony that required cutting off her clitoris. To many readers, the fact that she even has to think about whether or not to do this is shocking. It’s not shocking to me at all, coming from the culture that I come from where the individual is often secondary to the community…

We fear what we don’t know.

I speak my life into existence with each expressed breath I take. I tell you a story within which are more stories. Universes within universes. We are all spinning like small suns. I am like my own sun.

It was obvious who the Elders were. Important-looking men wearing important clothes being looked at by everyone else because they were important.

There is nothing that a man must believe that can’t be seen or touched or sensed.