Silence is the best answer to a fool.

Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.

Use your powers for good instead of evil

I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat.

Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world.

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

There are no winners in real games.

All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

The fittest of the fittest shall survive !

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

Touring with the record out - shows are so much more fun now that n - - s know what I'm talking about.

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.