Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

United States, Writer
April 8, 1974

Nnedi Okorafor (full name: Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor; previously known as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; translated from Igbo into English as "mother is good") is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction for both children and adults. She is best known for Binti, Who Fears Death, Zahrah the Windseeker, and Akata Witch.

Also known as Science Fiction Writer

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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- Thinking
- Habit
- Strength
There is nothing that a man must believe that can’t be seen or touched or sensed.

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- Believe
- Seen
- Sensed

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

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- Silence
- Fool
- Answer
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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- Hurt
- Need
- Beliefs
Use your powers for good instead of evil.

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- Good
- Evil
- Powers
Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.

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- Things
- Understand
- Cursed
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…

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You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.

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- Change
- Crazy
- Ready

We fear what we don’t know.

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- Fear
- Know
Withholding the truth is lying.

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- Truth
- Lying
- Withholding