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Nnedi Okorafor
38 quotes
“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…”
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Recorded in: On how the title character in Binti! visualizes numbers in http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-nnedi-okorafor/ “Interview: Nnedi Okorafor” in Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy (Mar 2017)
“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…”
Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her belief about extraterrestrial life in http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-nnedi-okorafor/ “Interview: Nnedi Okorafor” in Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy (Mar 2017)
“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…”
Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On choice being reconciled with culture in her works in “Interview: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor” in Weird Fiction Review (2017 Feb 20)
“I don’t think about what I write and the way I write as “containers”, nor do I think about what others will see it as. I just write it. I know that I am deeply interested in post-humanism and how our pasts connect with our futures and present. I’m interested in African and Arab cultures and how they both battle and blend and I’m coming at this not as a researcher, but as a participant. I’m interested in technology and spirituality and how they blend and what happens when they blend. I think that my interests and the results of them in my stories lead to very “weird” fiction…”
Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her interests and how they are intertwined in her writings in “Interview: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor” in Weird Fiction Review (2017 Feb 20)
“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!"...”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Silence is the best answer to a fool.”
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“Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.”
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“Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them.”
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“Maybe I'm too scared to fly, but I'm brave enough to save your life.”
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“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.”
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“A curious mind must be properly fed”
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“Withholding the truth is lying.”
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“People hate what they don’t understand.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“We fear what we don’t know.”
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“There is nothing that a man must believe that can’t be seen or touched or sensed.”
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“When I am not moving toward my fate, it comes to me.”
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“Mortality smelled muddy and wet and I reeked of it.”
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“Just because something is not alive, does not mean that it is dead. You have to be alive first to be dead.”
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“To know someone's pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The fire in my veins burns hotter than any sun.”
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“Fear is a prison, and only by facing it can we truly be free.”
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“We all have the power to embrace our scars and rise like phoenixes from the ashes of our pain.”
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“Strength comes not from avoiding suffering, but from enduring it with grace and resilience.”
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“The greatest adventure lies not in our surroundings, but in the depths of our own souls.”
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“Our bodies may be fragile, but our spirits are unbreakable”
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“True beauty lies in embracing our flaws and imperfections.”
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“People treat it with more respect than they treat any police officer. Maybe because the robot is polite, helpful and never asks for bribes.”
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“However, time doesn’t change the essence of what you are.”
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“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.”
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“I will never believe in Christ or Allah or any other God. I will never follow any religion.”
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“It was obvious who the Elders were. Important-looking men wearing important clothes being looked at by everyone else because they were important.”
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“The problem with you,” Force said, “is that you’re so used to pain and discomfort that your definition of feeling okay is not the greatest indicator of being okay.”
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