{"author":"Nnedi Okorafor","author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["growth"],"id":16431,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["demanding-teachers","exams","expectations","surprises","tests","violence"],"id":34159,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["akata-witch","knowledge","nnedi-okorafor","prejudice","wisdom"],"id":88165,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"School will bring you more success than marriage.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["education","education-for-women","marriage","success"],"id":150405,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"The Nuru men, and their women, had done what they did for more than torture and shame. They wanted to create Ewu children. Such children are not the children of forbidden love between a Nuru and an Okeke, nor are they Noahs, Okekes born without color. The Ewu are children of violence.An Okeke woman will never kill a child kindled inside of her. She would go against even her husband to keep a child in her womb alive. However, custom dictates that the child is the child of her father. These Nuru had planted poison. An Okeke woman who gave birth to an Ewu child was bound to the Nuru through her child.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["dark","violence"],"id":200865,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel firmly. 'It is the essence of all things, to move and change and keep going forward and backward and around. Even the spirits and the dead.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["essence","humanity","movement","travel"],"id":209567,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... And often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["equality","hatred","injustice","justice","normalcy","oppression"],"id":218866,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It's a risk you take. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["danger","learning","reality"],"id":250311,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure out of delving into their minds. There's rarely emptiness, and there is almost always deep intelligence.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["deep","challenge","fun "],"id":299733,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"},{"text":"Neither (brother) even glaced at the counter. She smiled. Her dumb brothers never cooked. She didn’t think they even knew how! A human being who needs food to live but cannot prepare that food to eat? Pathetic. In this case, it was an advantage. They weren’t interested in any food until it had been cooked for them.","author":"Nnedi Okorafor","tags":["gender","gender-equality","humour"],"id":326949,"author_id":"Nnedi+Okorafor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}