Joe Okonkwo Quotes

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Joe Okonkwo is an American writer of Nigerian descent, whose debut novel Jazz Moon won the Edmund White Award and was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, in 2017.

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Kindness and talent and love ain’t the same as strength.

Jazz Moon (2017)

It’s better to die with your worst enemy in the room than to die all alone, right?

Jazz Moon (2017)

You can only know you are cared about if you are told and shown.

Jazz Moon (2017)

Harlem had been hit by a hurricane: It was raining cats and jazz.

Jazz Moon (2017)

Forgiveness was like charity: You could dispense it, or not. And, as with charity, the one dispensing held the power.

Jazz Moon (2017)

I self-published a book of poetry back in 2002, and when I flip through the book now — there might be some flashes of good writing, but for the most part, it’s not something I’m proud of. Poetry is hard. It’s harder than fiction.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joe Okonkwo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.