Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

“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.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker

“Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker

“I wanted to ask, 'Why did you let this happen?' but that was blasphemy. You never ask why. It was not a question for you to ask.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Binti

“Los okekes tienen la piel del color de la noche porque fueron creados antes que el día. Fueron los primeros. Más tarde, mucho después de eso, llegaron los nurus. Proceden de las estrellas, y por eso su piel es del color del sol.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

“They were all girls who grew up in sprawling houses, who'd never walked through the desert, who'd never stepped on a snake in the dry grass. They were girls who could not stand the rays of the Earth's sun unless it was shining through a tinted window.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Binti