Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected (TED Books)

by Nnedi Okorafor

When the caterpillar in its chrysalis is changing into a butterfly, does it think it’s dying? —Oubria Tronshaw, writer

What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become strengths greater than what we had when we were “normal” or unbroken.

we were taught that all ailments—physical and otherwise—could be worked with, if not cured, taught to always walk with our heads up and to look a scary thing in its many eyes.

Intellect deepened into profound creativity when darker elements of life experience were mixed in.

“What will be will be. Forward. No looking back.”

Sometimes what you don’t understand keeps you from seeing certain obstacles and in not seeing them, you unknowingly scale them.

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