Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

Nnedi Okorafor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: April 8, 1974

Topics

KingReadingUpNonfictionBooks

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

Jerry Hall

GreatPoetryIdeasSmallThinkSay

All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.

Jeremy Bulloch

BetterYouMoreVarietyVery

Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

John Muir

MountainSmallWonderSometimesOwn

People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I'm like, 'Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That's it.' There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.

Anjelah Johnson

CharacterPeopleMeBlackDoingOut

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Stephen Hawking

LifeSingleAccidentsPlanetMany

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Sigmund Freud

JusticeCivilizationFirstRequisite

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

Simon Travaglia

RulesKnowingTwoRememberingThings

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.

Tre Cool

ThinkWorthTakeCutThanJam

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

Tom Chatfield

HumanDrivenMiseryInjuryEvenSum

I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.'

Ross Butler

TeamGoWantAsianOutRoles

You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.

Mike Joyce

DirectionSomeoneYouPlayRight

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Don Marquis

HappinessManFateHandsProsperity

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