All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

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.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

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

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

Use your powers for good instead of evil

I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat.

Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.

Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world.

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.