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I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.
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We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.
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When are aliens ever not evil?""E.T.?" Rome said. — Nnedi Okorafor
Life was out there and death was, too. I feared both now.
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I have this obsession with destruction.
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You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.
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See? We never needed you.
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I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it.
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the girl who was so lovely even her father couldn't resist her.
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Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.
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THE BOY AND THE LADY
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There are more valuable things in life than safety and comfort. Learn. You owe it to yourself.
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Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
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I love and am terrified of the water, particularly the ocean.
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But deep down inside me, I wanted . . . I needed it. I couldn't help but act on it. The urge was so strong that it was mathematical.
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However, just because something isn't surprising doesn't mean it's easy to deal with.
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Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind.
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School will bring you more success than marriage.
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We embrace those things that make us unique or odd. For only in these things can we locate and then develop our most individual abilities.
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Use your powers for good instead of evil
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Silence is the best answer to a fool.
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I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
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You fit get me inside dere?" he asked, his voice lusty in her ear. "I go try, baby," she whispered.
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One of my feet is a whole size longer than the other. One is size ten, the other is size eleven.
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This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless." What
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I love writing about monsters and food.
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Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them.
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There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.
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Two footsteps do not make a path.
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Human beings make terrible gods.
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Suffering is against the Way. Let us end you.
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I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
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Funny how all things people don't understand seem to be 'cursed'.
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My father didn't believe in war. He said war was evil, but if it came he would revel in it like sand in a storm.
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When she was afraid, nervous, or uncomfortable, all she had to do was focus on the science to feel balanced again. It was no different now.
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Maybe I'm too scared to fly, but I'm brave enough to save your life.
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would you have felt?
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The tarantula scrambles faster, certain that he will make it across. Certain of his extraordinary speed. Crunch.
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Heru's chest burst
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You might have liked the United States more,"" she said. "They've got more stuff. And if your spaceship is broken, they can probably fix it better.
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To know someone's pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.
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Just because you are American does not make you American.
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old doesn't always mean less advanced." I
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I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.
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'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.
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