Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Nnedi Okorafor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenCultureDeathFacePushPull

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

Jerry Reinsdorf

SportsSocietyDiscriminationPlace

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

John Ruskin

GoodSocietyDoneRepresentation

I'm not really a morning person.

Steve Burton

MorningPersonMorning PersonReally

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

Stephan Jenkins

RhythmEmotionalHeadMelodyState

I've been singing my entire life. The guitar came to me later on down the road.

Luke Combs

LifeMeSingingRoadGuitarDown

In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstood lifestyles. I've tried to resist easy judgments and not pander to prejudices.

Louis Theroux

PastPeopleEasyMisunderstoodHuman

I've lived so much life as a young man. New Orleans, we got terms, and one's like, 'He jumped off the porch early.' That's kind of what happened to me. I had to grow up really quick.

Jason Mitchell

LifeManMeGrowEarlyYoung

I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

Chris Wooding

WorkMeProblemWantNextPretty

Home is where my mom is.

Brittany Murphy

HomeMomWhere

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes into people's minds and that's the only place that it ever exists. And it never exists truly; it only exists in the way that people think they remember it. But it's a really powerful way to tell a story and to pass something on.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

PeopleStoryThinkRememberPowerful

I am very proud to be Irish.

Philip Treacy

I AmProudIrishVeryAm

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Thomas Fuller

FoolManWiseWise ManTravels

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