Karena

“Then there was Heru. I had never spoken to him, but we smiled across the table at each other during mealtimes. He was from one of those cities so far from mine that they seemed like a figment of my imagination, where there was snow and where men rode those enormous gray birds and the women could speak with those birds without moving their mouths.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Binti

“When you face your deepest fears, when you are ready,” she’d said. “Don’t turn away. Stand tall, endure, face them. If you get through it, they will never harm you again.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Home

“George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: “That’s some weird shit.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories