Shadow Speaker Quotes

“I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, The Shadow Speaker

“if you don’t learn how to lead, you’ll only be led,”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Shadow Speaker

“I have heard firsthand about the beginning. Small small groups of you called it Original Sin. But that’s some bullshit. You didn’t come from any clay. Your ancestors never ate a magic apple. If they did, the man would eat first. If woman found the Apple of Knowledge, she wouldn’t share it. And she’d eat it in the sunshine. All the way to the core. And then look for more.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Shadow Speaker

“You are smart, but more importantly, you are lucky. That’s the plight of your kind. Human beings. You all stumble about each world, kicking and stomping and breaking and somehow, hearty and resilient, you live. And get comfortable. You relax. You get rested. Clarity comes. You invent. You enjoy. Then you kill. And then you kill again.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Shadow Speaker