Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

I hate you." I love you." You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." I'm trying not to be.

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'