Akata Witch Quotes

“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.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“There are more valuable things in life than safety and comfort. Learn. You owe it to yourself.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It's a risk you take. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“They’re capable of great things, but potential doesn’t equal success.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“They don’t teach them to understand others, they teach them to expect others to understand them,” he said in English. He humphed and said, “Americans.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“People are too focused on money. It’s supposed to be a tool, not the prize to be won.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Lambs think money and material things are the most important thing in the world. You can cheat, lie, steal, kill, be dumb as a rock, but if you can brag about money and having lots of things and your bragging is true, that bypasses everything. Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Lesson one,” Anatov said. “And this is for all of you. Learn how to learn. Read between the lines. Know what to take and what to discard.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Home will never be the same once you know what you are. Your whole life will change.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Neither (brother) even glaced at the counter. She smiled. Her dumb brothers never cooked. She didn’t think they even knew how! A human being who needs food to live but cannot prepare that food to eat? Pathetic. In this case, it was an advantage. They weren’t interested in any food until it had been cooked for them.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.” What”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Lies are a thing of the physical world. They can’t exist in the spirit world.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“It’s as I taught you: the world is bigger and more important than you.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Trouble is never hard to find.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Sometimes too much knowledge can make you mean. You know too much.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Eles são capazes de fazer coisas grandiosas, mas nem sempre o potencial se traduz em sucesso"
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― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Preconceito gera preconceito, sabe? O conhecimento nem sempre evolui para a sabedoria."
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― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Las heridas reflejo sanan al cabo de unos minutos… a menos que sean mortales.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Bruja Akata

“Aceptamos las cosas que nos hacen únicos o raros. Pues en ellas podemos ubicar y luego desarrollar nuestras habilidades más personales.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Bruja Akata

“You are a Leopard Person only by the will of the Supreme Creator, and as we all know, She isn’t very concerned with Her own creations.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“As I have repeated incessantly throughout this book, there is no direction you can turn that does not face you toward certain death.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“- Porque não é assim que a vida funciona - retrucou Anatov. - Quando as coisas vão mal, elas não cessam até que você dê cabo da maldade… ou morra.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Todos os lugares têm um lado sombrio e um lado de luz.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“You can always tell a man’s nature by his voice, a woman’s nature is more in the eyes.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“I guess these are not our questions to ask, really. Just our facts to accept.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Black-skinned fairies with the wings of flies and clothes made from spiderwebs threw poison spears at them.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Hausa, Urdu, Yoruba, Arabic, Efik, German, Igbo, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sanskrit, even one written in a language Chichi called Nsibidi. “Can you read N—”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Sunny breathed a sigh of relief. “Anyway, being a Leopard Person is not genetic, really,” Chichi continued. “It’s spiritual. The spiritual affects the physical. . .. It’s complicated. All you need to know is that Leopard People tend to keep it in the family. But sometimes it skips and jumps, like with you. It sounds like your grandmother was of Leopard spirit. By the way, all this is in that book I just helped you buy. So read it.” “Oh, I plan to. Go on.” “So Leopard Knocks is the main West African headquarters,” she said. “Sasha, where’s the headquarters in the United States?” Sasha smirked. “New York, of course. But I don’t consider that place the head of anything. It doesn’t represent black folks. We are a minority, I guess. As a matter of fact—everything’s biased toward European juju. The African American headquarters is on the Gullah Islands in South Carolina. We call it Tar Nation.” Sunny laughed. “Nice name.” “We try,” Sasha said proudly. “You know how you had to be initiated to come here?” Chichi asked. “Yeah.” “Well, because we have Leopard parents, Orlu and I have been able to come here all our lives. We knew our spirit faces, so we could cross. We both went through the first level, the initiation, two years ago. It’s called Ekpiri,” she said. “Most go through it around fourteen or fifteen.” “But I’m twelve,” Sunny said. “Yeah, you’re early,” Chichi said. “So was Orlu.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch