"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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Source : Nnedi Okorafor (2011). “Who Fears Death”, p.32, Penguin

Nnedi Okorafor

“Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.”
“You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.”
“I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.”

Source : Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.
“â€ŽWhen you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves.”
“I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was made to contain us.”
“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press
“Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.”
“Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.”

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