Tomi Adeyemi Quotes
born 1993 Nigeria
Tomi Adeyemi (born August 1, 1993) is a Nigerian-American novelist and creative writing coach.
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It’s like seeing her for the first time: the human behind the maji. Fear embedded in the pain. Tragedy caused in Father’s name.”
On earth, Sky Mother created humans, her children of blood and bone. In the heavens she gave birth to the gods and goddesses. Each would come to embody a different fragment of her soul.”
Over generations, love of the maji turned into fear. Fear turned into hate. Hate transformed into violence, a desire to wipe the maji away.”
Our lack of power and our oppression are one and the same, Inan. Without power we’re maggots. Without power the monarchy treats us like scum!”
The thing is that underneath we are all humans…Everyone has people they love and people they want to protect, everyone has things they are afraid of or that cause them pain.
Magic slithers inside me. Venomous, like a thousand spiders crawling over my skin. It wants more of me.”
No matter how much I crave peace, the gods have other plans.
For the first time since the torture, I feel a hint of the old fire that used to roar louder than my fear. But its flame is weak now; as soon as it flickers, it’s blown out by the wind.”
“I can’t be expected to carry the plight of my people forever.”
It doesn't matter how strong I get, how much power my magic wields. They will always hate me in this world.
“Everyone else feels like being caught in the rain. You’re the whole tsunami.
You have your duty and your heart. To chose one means the other must suffer.
Power is not the answer. It will only intensify the fight.
Growing up, Father led me to believe that those who clung to the myth of the gods were weak. They relied on beings they could never see, dedicating their lives to faceless entities.
I begin to realise how far others will go to keep us down.
Reality and logic don’t matter to her. She needs this so badly, failure isn’t even in the realm of possibilities.
Yemi meets my eyes with a hatred that impales me like a sword. Though her mouth never opens, her voice rings in my skull. “Safe ended a long time ago.”
All these years I thought Father was a monster, but what if ruling this kingdom forced him to act that way?
Love is too strong, too intense, for what I feel. For what I am allowed to feel.
When I read, I like to go somewhere else in my mind with stories that touch our real world without taking place in it.
Interview (2019)