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’.

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.

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!

The essential thing is to run period!And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.

I really appreciate the way you don't appreciate me, said my subconscious as I agreed to go out with her yet again.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

You do what you love, or you get arrested.

I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit.

It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

I am that merry wanderer of the night.

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.