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Suyi Davies Okungbowa Quotes

Suyi Davies Okungbowa(born Osasuyi Okungbowa in Benin City, Nigeria) is an author and professor of Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa. His debut novel, David Mogo, Godhunter was published in July 2019; he has also written for younger readers (under the author name Suyi Davies) like Minecraft: The Haven Trials.

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Stories are like knives: weapons or tools, depending on who is wielding them.

Information before you need it is just as dangerous as the lack of it.

How could one explain a toothache to someone without teeth?

We may come from different castes, and our struggles may be different, but our reasons are rooted in the same soil.

You say you want liberty, but you can never be free alone. None of us are free until all of us are.

Dangerous is a name for things we do not understand. I am a thing that is not understood, both among my people and among yours.

The world will always be on fire. And though the size of that fire will differ, depending, it will always exist, and you will always need to be strong enough to make your way forward. Here’s to hoping you can find that strength in the small things.

I love how you say conquer when you mean erase.
Let me borrow from their sayings here: they who rewrite stories are doomed to create monsters.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Suyi Davies Okungbowa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.