Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

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.

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

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

If you could, wouldn’t you replace your damaged legs with cybernetic ones? Why hold on to malfunctioning or poorly formed flesh and bone because “we were born with it”? That’s something said only by people who have no choice or have no actual experience with being…unable. What makes you you, really? I’m a mechanic. When something isn’t working, you replace it with something better, something that is working.

Withholding the truth is lying.

Funny how all things people don't understand seem to be 'cursed'.

I’ve never heard the term “numerical synesthesia,” but now that I have, yes, this is how she often sees. This is how she is able to calm herself. This is her path to tapping into the energy of spirit. I’ve also blended it with a phenomenon that I became familiar with while playing sports. “Treeing” was when you were effortlessly performing at a level beyond yourself. It was like looking into time and space and being able to manipulate it, but if you tried to analyze it, you’d fall out of it…

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

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.

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

Maybe I'm too scared to fly, but I'm brave enough to save your life.

A curious mind must be properly fed

We all have the power to embrace our scars and rise like phoenixes from the ashes of our pain.

Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them.