Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

To know someone's pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.

Just because something is not alive, does not mean that it is dead. You have to be alive first to be dead.

Mortality smelled muddy and wet and I reeked of it.

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

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

We fear what we don’t know.

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."

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."

People hate what they don’t understand.

Withholding the truth is lying.

A curious mind must be properly fed

Though I knew I shouldn't have cared, the words still hurt like pinches. And pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.

Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world.

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

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